Michal

“The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla.”
― Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche

“Walls

Without reflection, without mercy, without shame,
they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about.

And now I sit here and consider and despair.

My brain is worn with meditating on my fate:
I had outside so many things to terminate.

Oh! why when they were building did I not beware!

But never a sound of building, never an echo came.
Out of the world, insensibly, they shut me out.”
― Constantinos P. Cavafis

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“W historii politycznej Polski nigdy nie grałem jakiejkolwiek roli, nigdy nie byłem na scenie, ale często siedziałem w pierwszym rzędzie, obserwowałem spektakl dokładnie, a czasami udawało mi się na chwilę zabrnąć za kulisy, zerknąć na to lub owo, dojrzeć szminkowanie i kostiumowanie.”
― Stanisław Mackiewicz, Historia Polski od 11 listopada 1918 do 17 września 1939