Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all. — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“Dlaczego kraj, który i tak ma nieustannie przesrane – bo a to Ruscy, a to Niemcy, a to Tatarzy, a to własna szlachta, a to własna głupota – dodatkowo straumatyzowano największą… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“The homeland, the myth of the homeland, becomes a fundamental value for those who have nothing else(...)In a world where power, like wealth, falls… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“That's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.” — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“- Strachliwego masz chłopa, Maryśka. - Edek nalał kieliszek i podał męzczyźnie. - Pij! Na odwagę! - Jaki on mój. Tak przychodzę... - powiedziała… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all. — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“Wychodziło na to, że zbrodnia w afekcie. Innych wtedy nie było. Nie to, co teraz. My zasadniczo nie popełnialiśmy poważnych przestępstw. A już na… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer.… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“it is the West’s provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself” — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“it gives me no rest, my wish to know the fate of all these scenes that entered my eyes and have remained in my… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
