Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIBut also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
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And also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can’t understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
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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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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.
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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