Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIMore ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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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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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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
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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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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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