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.
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes t… - Andrzej Stasiuk
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes t…
- Andrzej Stasiuk
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, … - Andrzej Stasiuk
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, …
Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all. - Andrzej Stasiuk
Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
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 k… - Andrzej Stasiuk
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 k…
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its i… - Andrzej Stasiuk
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its i…
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 thei… - Andrzej Stasiuk
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 thei…
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