Andrzej Stasiuk Quotes

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Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.

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.

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, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned.

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.

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 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

Andrzej Stasiuk

Andrzej Stasiuk

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Born: September 25, 1960 (age 64)

Bio: Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics. He is best known for his travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West.

Known for:

On the Road to Babadag (2004)
Tales of Galicia (1995)
Mury Hebronu (1992)
Dukla (Polish Literature Series) (2011)

Andrzej Stasiuk on Wikipedia

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