Andrzej Stasiuk quotes
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“Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.”
-- Andrzej StasiukSource : Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.”
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“It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They begin only when you experience them, vanish when others follow.”
-- Andrzej StasiukSource : Andrzej Stasiuk (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.79, HMH
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“Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned.”
-- Andrzej StasiukSource : Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.”
-- Andrzej StasiukSource : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”
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“This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.”
-- Andrzej StasiukSource : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”
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Source : Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press
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Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”
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“Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.”
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“Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.”
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.
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