- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education, school should prepare us not to morally judge everyone, but to be able to find our own truth in this world of various points of view.
- Foreign Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adore Stanley Kubrick, all of his films were different, not just in subject but tonally.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the fact is we did have colonies in the east of Poland, we did have a slave economy there. But this is not common knowledge - or part of our national myth. It goes against the current romanticised view of the government, and much of the country, that Poles have always been victims, never oppressors.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that I pulled out of my head, that I invented.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet and nationalist Adam Mickiewicz declared that independence would come only with great sacrifice. Ever since, this myth of the martyr, or messianic victim, has emerged during times of national crisis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.
- Beside
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- Nov 07, 2020
But sometimes I fear that the people of my country can unite only beside victims' bodies, over coffins and in cemeteries. Like tribesmen who dance around old totems, we ignore the living and can only appreciate the dead.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual achievements, a sense of our own self-worth and ideas for the future.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020