Patrick Parlej

“Fryderyk Chopin had always said he wanted to be buried in his native land,”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“Anyone who has ever tried to write a novel knows what an arduous task it is, undoubtedly one of the worst ways of occupying oneself. You have to remain within yourself all the time, in solitary confinement. It’s a controlled psychosis, an obsessive paranoia manacled to work, completely lacking in the feather pens and bustles and Venetian masks we would ordinarily associate with it, clothed instead in a butcher’s apron and rubber boots, eviscerating knife in hand.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights