“Ne, ne, ljudi u našoj zemlji ne znaju se udružiti i stvoriti zajednicu, čak i pod vrganjevim barjakom. To je zemlja neurotičnih… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet… — Olga Tokarczuk Crisis Copy Share Image
To write is to look for very particular, specific points of view on reality. — Olga Tokarczuk Look Copy Share Image
From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is… — Olga Tokarczuk Death Copy Share Image
I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together… — Olga Tokarczuk Believe Copy Share Image
“Sada mi se razjasnilo zašto čeke, streljačke tornjeve, koji uostalom jako podsjećaju na stražarske tornjeve u koncentracijskim logorim, nazivaju amboni – propovjedaonice.… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories. — Olga Tokarczuk Feel Copy Share Image
Education, school should prepare us not to morally judge everyone, but to be able to find our own truth in this world… — Olga Tokarczuk Education Copy Share Image
“(...) ograniczenie umysłowe i okrucieństwo ludzkie nie zna granic.” — Olga Tokarczuk Cruelty Copy Share Image
“The human psyche evolved in order to defend itself against seeing the truth. To prevent us from catching sight of the mechanism.… — Olga Tokarczuk Existential Copy Share Image
There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
“There were corporeal, psychic, and spiritual people. Somatics, psychics, and pneumatics, they called them, from the Greek. Equality goes against nature, however… — Olga Tokarczuk Corporeal Copy Share Image
I adore Stanley Kubrick, all of his films were different, not just in subject but tonally. — Olga Tokarczuk Cinema Copy Share Image
Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the… — Olga Tokarczuk Connections Copy Share Image
“It's clear that the largest things are contained in the smallest. There can be no doubt about it. At this very moment,… — Olga Tokarczuk Death Copy Share Image
Poland was once a powerful imperial country that disappeared from maps of Europe for more than 100 years. It was partitioned and… — Olga Tokarczuk Believe Copy Share Image
“Below the mill the rivers merge. First they flow close beside each other, undecided, overawed by their longed-for intimacy, and then they… — Olga Tokarczuk Melting pot Copy Share Image
The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's… — Olga Tokarczuk Details Copy Share Image
“Gnjev uvijek za sobom ostavlja puno praznoga mjesta na koje se odmah, kao poplava, ulijeva tuga i teče velika rijeka., bez početka… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Treba imati otvorene oči i uši, povezivati činjenice, vidjeti sličnosti tamo gdje drugi vide potpunu različitost, pamtiti da se s tanoviti događaji… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness. — Olga Tokarczuk Emptiness Copy Share Image
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda. — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all. — Olga Tokarczuk Crime fiction Copy Share Image
