Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead Quotes
"Strange, mordantly funny, consoling and wise, Olga Tokarczuk’s novels fill the reader’s mind with intimations of a unique consciousness."
"I loved this wry, richly melancholic philosophical mystery."
"Tokarczuk is one of Europe’s most daring and original writers."
"The book’s prose is a lucid medium in which narrative crystals grow to an ideal size."
"A profound meditation on time, mythology, the self and human anatomy."
"An indisputable masterpiece of 'controlled psychosis'."
"I am already at an age and additionally in a state where I must always wash my feet thoroughly before bed."
"The world was not created for Mankind, and for at least half the year it shows us how very hostile it is to us."
"The frost brutally assailed our cheeks, and clouds of white steam came streaming from our mouths."
"Who on earth does deserve death? The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside."
"I admit that’s what I thought, and that’s what I still think now."
"Sometimes, when a Person feels Anger, everything seems simple and obvious."
"Anger puts things in order and shows you the world in a nutshell."
"The feet – those are our plugs into the socket."
"Sometimes I feel as if we’re living inside a tomb, a large, spacious one for lots of people."
"I could see the beautiful geometric shapes of fields, strips and rectangles, each with a different texture."
"But something new is bound to follow, as it always has – isn’t that a comical paradox?"
"Studying Horoscopes gave me pleasure, even while I was discovering these orders of death."
"Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion."
"A Horse misused upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood."
"Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth."
"We trustingly went to and fro beneath the sky, which had nothing good in store for us."
"In fact Man has a great responsibility towards wild Animals – to help them to live their lives."
"I see us moving about blindly in eternal Gloom, like May bugs trapped in a box by a cruel child."
"The wild deer, wand’ring here & there, Keeps the Human Soul from Care."
"It’s easy to harm and injure us, to smash up our intricately assembled, bizarre existence."
"The whole, complex human psyche has evolved to prevent Man from understanding what he is really seeing."
"Every Night & every Morn, Some to Misery are Born."
"Spring is just a short interlude, after which the mighty armies of death advance; they’re already besieging the city walls."
"Within our bodies disintegration inexorably advances; soon we shall fall sick and die."
"The most precious memories will dissipate. Everything will sink into darkness and vanish."
"How could one possibly know all this and not miscarry?"
"Irresistibly – that’s a beautiful, powerful word; when we use it, we shouldn’t really need to provide any further explanation."
"I think that in paradise we must have been devoid of hair. Naked and smooth."
"Evolution is about beauty, about achieving the most perfect form for each shape."
"Other people’s life stories are not a topic for debate. One should hear them out, and reciprocate in the same coin."
"I believe my Constitution to be a good one, but it has many Peculiarities that no one but myself can know."
"The truth is I had a lot in common with them – I too saw the world in other spheres, upside down."
"He who torments the Chafers Sprite Weaves a Bower in endless Night."
"They demonstrate that similar thinking has occurred in European jurisdiction before, and that they can be taken as a precedent."
"The day of vengeance is nigh. The regiments of hell are closing in."
"There’s nothing natural about nature any more."
"I am pleased to inform you that I have managed to obtain the date of birth of the deceased Mr Innerd and to draw up his Horoscope."
"The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
"So it looks as if Mr Innerd’s death was accurately forecast in his radix Horoscope."
"I would rather die than spend the rest of my life in a place like this."
"The Questioner who sits so sly Shall never know how to Reply."
"Everything is connected with everything else, and we are all caught in a net of correspondences of every kind."
"The Bleat the Bark Bellow & Roar Are Waves that Beat on Heavens Shore."