Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
I Was Seized At Once With A Profound Fascination, A Burning Thirst To Learn, To Immerse Myself Totally, To Melt Away, To Become As One With This Foreign Universe. To Know It As If I Had Been Born And Raised There, Begun Life There. I Wanted To Learn The Language, I Wanted To Read The Books, I Wanted To Penetrate Every Nook And Cranny.
It Was A Kind Of Malady, A Dangerous Weakness, Because I Also Realized That These Civilizations Are So Enormous, So Rich, Complex, And Varied, That Getting To Know Even A Fragment Of One Of Them, A Mere Scrap, Would Require Devoting One's Whole Life To The Enterprise. Cultures Are Edifices With Countless Rooms, Corridors, Balconies, And Attics, All Arranged, Furthermore, Into Such Twisting, Turning Labyrinths, That If You Enter One Of Them, There Is No Exit, No Retreat, No Turning Back. To Become A Hindu Scholar, A Sinologist, An Arabist, Or A Hebraist Is A Lofty All-consuming Pursuit, Leaving No Space Or Time For Anything Else.
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