Sometimes I get up before sunrise to watch the way the dark thins out and objects slowly reveal themselves, the trees, the rest of the landscape. You can hear the river below and roosters in the village. The light of dawn, cold and blue, gradually fills the world, and it's the same in every place I've been.
Andrzej StasiukThe future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
Andrzej StasiukSometimes 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.
Andrzej StasiukThat's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere between Sluejow, Wygwizdow, and Solec time had ground to a halt or simply evaporated or melted like a dream and no longer separated us from our childhood.
Andrzej StasiukTo piękna rzecz przepierdolić kawał życia. Tę jedną, jedyną rzecz, którą się dostało. Na to trzeba mieć gest. Nie można być ściubolem, co to liczy każdą godzinę, że to trzeba tak, a to trzeba tak. Życie to w końcu strata jest.
Andrzej StasiukTags: life
Taki jest sens literatury, żeby cię wykoleiła z normalnej codzienności, żeby cię wystrzeliła w kosmos z tego zwykłego życia, żebyś się nie dał udupić. Żebyś nie słuchał rodziców, tylko żebyś słuchał Martina Edena, bo jednak, z całym szacunkiem dla rodziców, oferta, jaką on składa, jest ciekawsza.
Andrzej StasiukPo tym poznaje się wielkich pisarzy, że wchodzą w twoją pamięć bez śladu, jak cienka igła, ale już nigdy się od nich nie uwolnisz.
Andrzej StasiukThe homeland, the myth of the homeland, becomes a fundamental value for those who have nothing else(...)In a world where power, like wealth, falls to the few, where no merit guarantees a reward and justice becomes a commodity like anything else, the human heart needs fortification. It needs something permanent, something available to everyone, irrespective of their merits, of the political climate, of prestige, authority, or affluence. It may be that for the disinherited, this final place is their place of birth. A law that says we are all born equal is as beautiful as it is impossible to enact. But the fact that we are all born in a particular place is hard to question. For many of us, if not the majority, this is the only incontrovertible foundation of our fate.
Andrzej StasiukThis 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 StasiukFreedom 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 StasiukTags: freedom western-culture
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