We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose. Octavian Paler More Quotes by Octavian Paler More Quotes From Octavian Paler Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain. Octavian Paler gaps next pain There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live. Octavian Paler sad-life inability emptiness A life without love is like a year without spring. Octavian Paler summer spring love-is The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying. Octavian Paler sad-life cry reality Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything. Octavian Paler immense beast 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 look tomorrow happiness people 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 cruel more place paradise The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder. Octavian Paler ghosts against down fight
