Jacek

“But there is such a thing as inspiration, a thing that, once it appears, cannot be got rid of or chased away, until you finally give up on everything and go and get a good night's sleep.”
― Hamid Ismailov, Of Strangers and Bees

“As night falls the city extricates itself from the work of the day and the stars prepare to come out. These were not the stars I was used to in the skies of my town and in the Land of Israel, but they are stars nevertheless. I'm grateful to them because even in a strange land they console me.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

“Handed down to each person is a kind of thread. Either you can follow that thread all the way to God—or you can tangle the thread, and stumble and strangle in the knots, and lose sight of the right direction and go astray.”
― Hamid Ismailov, Of Strangers and Bees

“For thou hast from me as a gift thy own being only, and no more; and therefore the creatures of thy hand and mind can live only by that being, moving when thou thinkest to move them, and if thy thought be elsewhere, standing idle.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion