Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Octavian Paler

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Romanian writer Octavian Paler.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.

Romanian - Writer | July 2, 1926 - May 7, 2007

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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

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

Octavian Paler

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