My Writing Is A Combination Of Three

Amin Hid Nothing. Everybody Knew Everything. Yet The American Senate Only Introduced A Resolution Breaking Off Trade With Amin Three Months Before His Overthrow.

If The Crowd Disperses, Goes Home, Does Not Reassemble, We Say The Revolution Is Over.

In Poland A Man Must Be One Thing: White Or Black, Here Or There, With Us Or Against Us -- Clearly, Openly, Without Hesitations. . . . We Lack The Liberal, Democratic Tradition Rich In All Its Gradations. We Have Instead The Tradition Of Struggle: The Extreme Situation, The Final Gesture.

Although A System May Cease To Exist In The Legal Sense Or As A Structure Of Power, Its Values (or Anti-values), Its Philosophy, Its Teachings Remain In Us. They Rule Our Thinking, Our Conduct, Our Attitude To Others. The Situation Is A Demonic Paradox: We Have Toppled The System But We Still Carry Its Genes.

The So-called New Russian Man Is Characterized Mainly By His Complete Exhaustion. You May Find Yourself Wondering If He Has The Strength To Enjoy His New-found Freedom. He Is Like A Long-distance Runner Who, On Reaching The Finishing Line, Is Incapable Even Of Raising His Hands In A Gesture Of Victory.