Polish - Journalist | March 4, 1932 - January 23, 2007
There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
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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.
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We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.
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Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.
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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
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The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
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