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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.

Adam Zagajewski

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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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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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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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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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