Octavian Paler Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Octavian Paler:

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a ‘socialist paradise.’
~Octavian Paler


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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
~Octavian Paler


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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
~Octavian Paler


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