Octavian Paler
Octavian Paler
Octavian Palerwas a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania...
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 July 1926
CountryRomania
summer spring love-is
A life without love is like a year without spring.
came convinced dictator fall happiness met people streets tomorrow
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.
lenin seems stalin statues
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
acute caught form inferno malady repression specific states taken
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.'
beast immense
Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.
sad-life dies
We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
reality sad-life cry
The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.
sad-life inability emptiness
There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...
pain next gaps
Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.