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Quotes by Polish Authors
"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."
"There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows."
"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
"Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed."
"God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't."
"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."
"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
"I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter."
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."
"At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are."
"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that."
"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom."
"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives."
"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."
"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."
"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
"All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look."
"Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams..."
"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."
"Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery."
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