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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3928/">Quotes by <em>Kapuscinski, Ryszard</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

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"Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives."

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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

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"Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out."

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"We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious."

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"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."

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"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."

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"In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility."

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"Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes."

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"A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these anti-conditions, your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years."

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