The Books of Jacob

by Olga Tokarczuk

HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW. ИO USE TO MILK IS YOUR SORROW

Poverty is nondenominational and has no national identity.

If people could read the same books, they would inhabit the same world.

most people are truly idiots, and that it is human stupidity that is ultimately responsible for introducing sadness into the world.

Real wisdom lies in linking everything together—that’s when the true shape of all of it emerges.

“The world is quite a perilous pilgrimage for those who sigh after eternity,”