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“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“In Japanese, koi no yokan means the ineluctable feeling you have, upon meeting someone for the first time, that eventually the two of you will fall in love.”
― Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange

“Words, then, are born of worlds. But they also take us places we can’t go: Constantinople and Mars, Valhalla, the Planet of the Apes. Language comes from what we’ve seen, touched, loved, lost. And it uses knowable things to give us glimpses of what’s not. The Word, after all, is God.”
― Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange

“Without words, we're history's orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased.”
― Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange

“... nie łudź się, że robisz tylko mały objazd w drodze powrotnej do Itaki. Lub, jeśli wolisz, przystanek na obsługę techniczną u Lotofagów albo u Kalipso. Żadna Atena nie zainterweniuje w twojej sprawie. Nikt nie dopilnuje, żebyś dotarł na miejsce. Jeśli naprawdę czegoś w życiu pragniesz, zwłaszcza jeśli to coś cię przeraża lub uważasz, że na to nie zasługujesz, musisz do tego dążyć i zrobić to teraz. Bo jeśli nie, to nie minie wiele czasu, a okaże się, że miałeś rację: nie zasługujesz na to.”
― Alena Graedon

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again.
If by chance it is not night.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“For the world did not change, this violence had always existed and would never be eradicated, men would die under the boot and fists and horror of other men until the end of time, and all human history was a history of violence.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Humans are only one of many things, and all these things long to live, and the highest form of living is freedom: a man to be a man, a cloud to be a cloud, bamboo to be bamboo.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North