Boris Gregoric

“...coldness, cynicism, distance – all these things have a common identity somewhere. And this is very characteristic of our era. I have the impression that we are increasingly cold and cynical toward each other and create ever-greater distances. I even have the impression that I can remember a time when it was warmer, and that over the fifty years of my life I have been watching us grow colder around each and every one of us. This is a trend we are witnessing and that everything in the world changes at some point. It can easily be observed and so it finds its way into the films I have made, for I have tried to depict the times in which we live. (*1995*)”
― Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Kieslowski: Interviews

“There was something eternal, something purely Muscovite about Zuyev. It never faded or disappeared, that amazing combination of unarrogant kindness, unaffected goodwill and merry seriousness.”
― Vasily Belov, The Best Is Yet to Come

“In recent decades I had come to recognize that the overwhelming majority of two-legged creatures commonly known as "humans", whether members of the yellow, white, black, or any other race, belong to the race of unreachables. A majority, or the vast majority - impossible to define it in percentage - cannot, or perhaps never could, be reached by anyone or anything, and certainly not by me or someone like me. Nothing surprises them. Nothing makes them prick up their ears. No ray, no reflection gets through to them. These unreachables lack entirely the capacity for what was once referred to as "keeping your eyes or ears open", even when it comes to "Mother Earth", whether the natural or the human world.”
― Peter Handke, The Fruit Thief: or, One-Way Journey into the Interior

“Our homeland in the language we spoke, thought, and wrote in, not the place where we were born. We live in the space of our language, and to expand it, it's not enough to just leave; we need to start thinking in other languages.”
― Dmitry Berkut, Clochard