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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

A Warsaw Diary

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Kapuściński, Ryszard. "A Warsaw Diary: Part 1." Granta 15: The Fall of Saigon, translated by Adam Czerniawski, Spring 1985.

The pebble
is a perfect creature

equal to itself
mindful of its limits

filled exactly
with a pebbly meaning

Zbigniew Herbert

Pebble

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Herbert, Zbigniew. "Kamyk [Pebble]." Studium przedmiotu [Subject Study]. Czytelnik, 1961.

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Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy. Myśli nieuczesane nowe [More Unkempt Thoughts]. The Curtis Publishing Company, 1964.

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Pope John Paul II. Quoted in His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time, written by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi. Doubleday, 1996.

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Lec, Stanislaw. Unkempt Thoughts, translated by Jacek Galazka. St. Martin's Press, 1962. Originally published as Myśli nieuczesane [Uncombed Thoughts]. Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1957.

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Pope John Paul II. Quoted in "Vatican Details Final Days of Pope John Paul II." Written by Brian Wingfield. The New York Times, 18 Sept. 2005. Originally his last words before he died on 2 Apr. 2005.

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Wałęsa, Lech. Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. 11 Dec. 1983, Norweigen Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway.