"Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned."

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Source : Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Andrzej Stasiuk

#Names Quotes #Mind Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!”
“I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.”
“When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.”
“I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.”
“Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.”
“I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.”
“Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.”

Source : Susan Polis Schutz (1974). “Peace flows from the sky”, Blue Mountain Press
“Everybody should be lucky enough to live as long as I have and be happy.”

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