But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIA certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Cities at daybreak are no one’s, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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The odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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