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• When man meets an obstacle he can’t destroy, he destroys himself.

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• When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can’t be answered.

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• We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.

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• Underground literature only began in the ’70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.

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• This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

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• There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

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• There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.

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• There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

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• The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

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• The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

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• The extent of one man’s guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

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• The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

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• The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

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• Readership was high, and very attentive. It wa attentives people’s only source of knowledge about the world.

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• People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

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• Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we’ll never achieve.

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• My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

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• Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers – there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

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• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

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• In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

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Ryszard Kapuscinski (35)

Birth:	4th March, 1972
Death:	23rd January, 2007
Nationality:	Polish
Profession:	Journalist, Writer

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Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation.

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