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Quotes About Clarity

For the best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Sometimes, when a Person feels Anger, everything seems simple and obvious. Anger puts things in order and shows you the world in a nutshell; Anger restores the gift of Clarity of Vision, which it's hard to attain in any other state.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It takes the Police a long time to establish things that seem obvious.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Perhaps that's the whole point of prayer—to think to yourself in peace, to want nothing, to ask for nothing, but simply to sort out your own mind. That should be enough.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Words are not nobilities that want their genealogical trees we traced. Words are merchants, swift and useful, now here, now there.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Anger makes the mind clear and incisive, able to see more. It sweeps up the other emotions and takes control of the body. Without a doubt Anger is the source of all wisdom, for Anger has the power to exceed any limits.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Mert minél tisztább, minél élesebb a tudat, annál több benne a rettegés. (...) Ha nem tudunk róla, hogy létezünk, megszabadulunk az id?t?l és a haláltól.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
miasteczko Cz?stochów. Roch wyja?nia mu, troch? s?owami, troch? na migi, ?e ta nazwa bierze si? st?d, i? ?wi?ty przybytek w nim si? znajduj?cy cz?sto chowa si? oczom grzeszników, i trzeba dobrze wyt??y? wzrok, ?eby go dojrze? w?ród ?agodnych wzgórz.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I don't collect anything.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Czasami, gdy Cz?owiek do?wiadcza Gniewu, wszystko wydaje si? oczywiste i proste. Gniew zaprowadza porz?dek, pokazuje ?wiat w oczywistym skrócie, w Gniewie powraca te? dar Jasno?ci Widzenia, o który trudno w innych stanach.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
My body tensed, I was ready to do battle. My head began to spin, and a dismal wailing rose in my ears, a roar, as if from over the horizon an army of thousands was approaching – voices, the clank of iron, the creak of wheels in the distance. Anger makes the mind clear and incisive, able to see more. It sweeps up the other emotions and takes control of the body. Without a doubt Anger is the source of all wisdom, for Anger has the power to exceed any limits.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It's a feature of flashlights that they're only visible in the daytime.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Every place has two characters— every place is double. What is sublime is also fallen. What is clement is at the same time base. In the deepest darkness lies the spark of the most powerful light, and vice versa: where omnipresent clarity reigns, a pit of darkness lurks inside the seed of light.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Kto? taki jak pan b?dzie budzi? niech?? i nienawi??, bo b?dzie jasno przypomina?, ?e wizja ?wiata bia?o-czarnego jest wizj? k?amliw? i niszcz?c?.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
D. zaczyna? cokolwiek widzie?, gdy siada? przed ekranem swojego komputera. Mia? wtedy przed sob? porz?dek i niesko?czon? harmoni?, prostot? dróg, które prowadz? do celu, jasno?? wyborów, ogromny potencja? my?li. Zaraz za tym do?wiadcza? spokoju, jaki bierze si? ze ?wiadomo?ci bycia wolnym. W pewnych granicach. Ale czy mo?na mówi? o jakichkolwiek granicach, kiedy tworzy si? ?wiaty?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change.
~ Oliver Stone
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
~ Unknown
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes