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Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
The world can’t die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
I am free. I am one of the few free people in this country of utterly transparent slavery. A slavery covered by a sloppy coat of contemporary varnish. I have fought a long and bloodless battle for this pitiable personal freedom. I fought for my freedom against the temptations, ambitions, and appetites witch drive everyone blindly on the slaughterhouse. To the so-called modern slaughterhouse for human dignity, honor, and for something else, too, which we forgot about a long time ago.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
Character has outlived its day. In ancient, primitive times, when biologically weak man struggled against omnipotent nature, character was useful, beneficial; with hideous labor it shoved the heavy stone of human impotence forward. We learned to praise ourselves, to admire character, to prostrate ourselves before it, make a fetish of it. But today no one has the courage to discredit character, although, psychologically speaking, it is now a throwback, simply reactionary.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
Our contemporary poverty is as transparent as glass and as invisible as the air. Our poverty is kilometer-long lines, the constant elbowing, spiteful officials, trains late without reason, the water cut off by some disaster (…), the monotony of living without any hope whatsoever, the decaying historic cities, the provinces emptying the rivers poisoned. Our poverty is the grace of the totalitarian state by whose grace we live.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
In today’s ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
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