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Kazuo Ishiguro
“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

Wiesław Myśliwski
“Wszystko od słów zależy. Jakie słowa, takie rzeczy, zdarzenia, myśli, wyobrażenia, sny i wszystko, nawet co na samym dnie człowieka. Byle jakie słowa, to byle jaki człowiek, byle jaki świat, byle jaki nawet Bóg.”
Wiesław Myśliwski, Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli

Wiesław Myśliwski
“Słowa same poprowadzą. Słowa wszystko na wierzch wywleką. Słowa i z najgłębszej głębi wydrą, co gdzieś boli i skowycze. Słowa krwi upuszczą i od razu lżej się robi.”
Wiesław Myśliwski, Stone Upon Stone
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Wiesław Myśliwski
“A może już tak jest, że lepiej nam w czyimś życiu, najbezpieczniej, najspokojniej, zacisznie, ani martwić się o nic dla siebie nie musimy, ani pragnąć, ani żałować niczego, jak u Pana Boga za piecem, tyle tylko, że przybrani jesteśmy. Bo ze swojego coś wiecznie wypędza, w swoim tylko pustki i niespełnienia, w swoim strach ciągły, niezgoda, troski, w swoim nawet świadomość dokucza.”
Wiesław Myśliwski, Nagi sad

Nikolai Gogol
“The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.”
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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