"A certain traveler who knew many continents was……" — Adam Zagajewski
"A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows."
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10 Quotes by Adam Zagajewski
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And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as…
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But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control…
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a…
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Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or…
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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a…
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also…
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Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing…
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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