Andrzej Stasiuk quotes

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 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 imposition. View quote
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 their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it. View quote
Andrzej Stasiuk

Andrzej Stasiuk

Occupation: Writer
Quotes count: 3

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