Tadeusz Borowski

(1922–1951) Poet Soviet Union

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Tadeusz Borowski was a poet from the Soviet Union, best known for Short stories.

Quick Facts About Tadeusz Borowski

Born: November 12, 1922
Died: July 3, 1951
Nationality: Soviet Union
Profession: Poet
Notable works: Short stories
Known for: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Kamienny świat
Spouse: Maria Borowska-Bayer

About Tadeusz Borowski

Tadeusz Borowski was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Quotes by Tadeusz Borowski

A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the…

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Emotion

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“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not…

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Death

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I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the…

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Discovering

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The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as…

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Believe

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“It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.”

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Concentration camp

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What a curious power words have.

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Curiosity

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Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

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Another man

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There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor…

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Beauty

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And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to…

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Able

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Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

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Behind my back

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“Despite the madness of war, we lived for a world that would be different. For a better world to come when all…

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Better world

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It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible…

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Camps

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“For quite some time now, like the foetus inside a womb, a terrible knowledge had been ripening within me and filling my…

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Infinite universe

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I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what…

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Glory

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The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

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Funny

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“But this is how it is done: first just one ordinary barn, brightly whitewashed—and here they proceed to asphyxiate people. Later, four…

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neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread…

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Age

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Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to…

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Accommodate

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