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„The Peloponnesian Straits are what the earth gives to the water, and Crete what the water gives to the earth.
I do think that the Peloponnese has the most beautiful shape. It's the shape of a great maternal hand, not a human one,
that is dipping into the water
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FEAR NOT
„‚At first you always see what's alive and vibrant. You're delighted by nature, by the local church painted in different colours, by the smells and all that. But the longer you're in a place, the more the charm of those things fades …
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Different moments in time hang in space like sheets, like screens lit up by one moment; the world is made up of these frozen moments, great meta- images, and we just hop from one to the next."
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Maybe all we need to do is change our way of looking, look askance at it all somehow. Because if the future and the past are infinite, then in
reality there can be no'once upon,' no 'back when.
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As though they'd been designed for a brief spurt of intensity,a high-stakes race,a triumph & immediately afterward, exhaustion.That what kept them alive was excitement,a costly life strategy energy reserves eventually ran out & then life would be lived in overdraft.
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we`ve reached the end, there's nothing past this now.
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The shop is called Book and School Supplies Shop, it's too small to give itself such airs as a specific name, and anyway, most of what it sells are simply notebooks and textbooks.
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And he doesn't remember the other evenings. He doesn't remember anything, he's missed it all. And when you don't remember it means it never happened.
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…he'd had a massive stroke...She sat up next to him all night, whispering into his ear, believing he heard and understood her. She led him down the dusty road among…the warehouses, the ramps, the dirty garages, down the side of the highway, all night.
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WHALES, OR: DROWNING IN AIR
„In Australia … when… another disoriented whale had run aground … people would charitably ladle water over its delicate skin and try to convince it to go home …
… these whales would take deep breaths and head back into the open sea. 🐳
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Escorted by several carriages, Chopin's heart did ultimately make it back to Warsaw.
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And that furthermore, whenever he would stand at the foot of a hill called Ruth, he would get the sense she hadn't died at all, that she was right here, just differently. Her life insurance was able to cover the costs of his travels.
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In the last few years she has realized that all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it's automatic.
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On the part of my (could they still be yours, too?) compatriots.
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But then there are other reusable ones, testaments not to events but to whole processes:a child's vaccination booklet, student ID like a tiny passport, pages half filled with stamps from each term,her school diploma,certificate of completion from dressmaking course.
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So it would appear that memory is a drawer stuffed with papers-some of them are totally useless, those one-time documents like dry-cleaning tickets and the proofs of purchase of winter boots or a toaster long since gone. #Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
The book she would now open over her lap was-she remembers-a book of Malczewski. She opens it to the page where the pretty young woman with a scythe is calmly and lovingly shutting the eyes of the old man who kneels before her.
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If you're not on the internet, aImost as though you don't exist at all. You have to have at least one little mention, even if it's just in a list of school alumni.
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“I was far from pleased to be encountering compatriots in foreign lands” (174).
Me, too. Why?
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…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
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SAYING
„Sway, go on, move. That's the only way to get away from him. He who rules the world has no power over movement and knows that our body in motion is holy, and only then can you escape him, once you ve taken off. He reigns over all that is still and frozen,
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Thomas Cook and James Cook: two of the chefs who cooked up our reality.
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this Cook had an idea-it now seems So strange that no one had ever thought of it before, but that is of course the famous simplicity of brilliant ideas- -namely, to rent a railway car to transport all the travelers together on the next trip.
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New Zealand was, it seems, the last land we invented.
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Give me back my father's body, so that I may bury him. I will follow You,my Lord, like a voice from the darkness, even when I die I will never let You be, never cease to whisper.
Josefine Soliman von Feuchtersleben
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The ruler who sets up taxes has his sway over what his subjects will eat, what they shall sleep on, and whether they'll wear linen or silk.
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Would Your Majesty stuff a courtier if he were white? A person of the absolute lowest position has the right to a funeral. By refusing my father that right, are You then denying his very humanity?
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THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
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It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
