Twenty Eleven

“The messianic machine, how it works.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“Asher Rubin thinks that most people are truly idiots, and that it is human stupidity that is ultimately responsible for introducing sadness into the world. It isn’t a sin or a trait with which human beings are born, but a false view of the world, a mistaken evaluation of what is seen by our eyes. Which is why people perceive every thing in isolation, each object separate from the rest. Real wisdom lies in linking everything together – that’s when the true shape of all of it emerges.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“In my soul there was joy and fear and then everything blended in one happy thought: I am not an orphan on this earth, so long as this man lives on it.”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences (of Leo Tolstoy; Anton Chekhov; Leonid Andreyev; Alexander Blok; & Letter to Constantin Stanislavsky)