"We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past."

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Source : "How Poland once spoke about the Shoah" by Inna Rogatchi, www.israelnationalnews.com. February 28, 2018.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#Attitude Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Dark Quotes

“The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.”

Source : Transformation of Nature in Art (1934) ch. 2
“... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.”
“We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.”
“We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'”
“I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage
“I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.”
“Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.”
“An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.”

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