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Book cover for The Tunnel
The phrase ‘the good old days’ does not mean that bad things happened less frequently in the past, only – fortunately – that people simply forget they happened. Obviously that view is not universally accepted. I, for example, would ...more
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Svetlana Alexievich
“The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”
Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality, if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one. What naturalist does not take pleasure in the wonderful things that he sees produced by reflection in a mirror? Now what a mirror in the field of ideas and morals means, everyone has experienced in himself, and once his attention is aroused, he will understand how much of his education he owes to it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Andy Miller
“Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I think he means you.”
Andy Miller, The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life

Søren Kierkegaard
“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Guillermo Erades
“Russia is lost" she continued. "First we had God. Then we had Lenin. Now we have nothing.”
Guillermo Erades, Back to Moscow

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