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“forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums”
― Zbigniew Herbert, Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems

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“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.”
― Anthony de Mello

tags: awareness, compassion, learning, politics, relegion, spirituality, work

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“Więc dlatego wszyscy przegramy; dlatego, że przechodziliśmy obojętnie obok czegoś, kiedy powinniśmy pozostać; i dobrze, że nam to nie będzie wybaczone.”
― Marek Hłasko, Brudne czyny

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“ماذا أقول على شاطىء
بحر صغير ميت

يطمر الماء ببطء
آثار أقدامٍ تتلاشى”
― Zbigniew Herbert

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“I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.”
― Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Prose, 1948-1998

tags: history, philosophy, religion, writing

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