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“it gives me no rest, my wish to know the fate of all these scenes that entered my eyes and have remained in my thoughts. What happens to them when I am no longer there?”
― On The Road To Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
― On The Road To Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
“In the slanting light of late autumn, the gestures and bodies of people are more expressive the less meaning they have. Men stand on street corners staring at the emptiness of the day. They spit on the sidewalk and smoke cigarettes. That's the present. ...Time, approaching from afar, is like the air that someone else has already breathed.”
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“Книгата е светата обител на думите, а думите са светата обител на мислите, които по такъв начин могат да бъдат посетени. Човек, ако не чете, тоя човек я кара с петстотин думи, останалата част от езика за него е тера инкогнита, където дори на екскурзия не е ходил...”
― Къщата сутрин
― Къщата сутрин
“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 between Sluejow, Wygwizdow, and Solec time had ground to a halt or simply evaporated or melted like a dream and no longer separated us from our childhood.”
― On The Road To Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
― On The Road To Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
“Писането не е наказание, то е божия благословия, подарък, пиршество на мисълта, бал на асоциациите... В писането е светът - малкият и големият, вътрешният и външният, истинският и измисленият... От писането човек пораства, сетивата му стават разстояния и години, деянията му стават маршрути на успеха или неуспеха, чувствата му се приравняват към едно същество с милиарди тела и чувства - човечеството...”
― Седем живи Марии
― Седем живи Марии
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