there are external and internal things. external things are appearance, and we live amongst external things like people in a dream, and the laws of appearances must be taken for real laws when in fact they are not. when you live in a place and a time in which certain laws are in effect, then you must observe those laws, but never forgetting that they are only partial systems, never absolute. for the truth is something else, and if a person is not prepared to come to know it, then it may seem frightening and terrible, and that person may curse the day he learned of it.

but i do believe that everyone can tell what kind of person he truly is. it's just that deep down, he doesn't want to find out.

  olga tokarczuk                                                                                                        the books of jacob                                                                                           the book of the road