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“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were convicted at Nuremberg, including Hitler's former envoy to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, who was found guilty of planning aggression against Czechoslovakia and committing atrocities against the Jewish people. On the same day, the State of Israel celebrated its first Passover seder and the United Nations, still meeting in those days at Flushing Meadow in Queens, voted to consider the Jewish state's application for membership. In Damascus, eleven newspapers were closed by the regime of General Hosni Zayim. In America, the National Committee on Alcoholism announced an upcoming 'A-Day' under the non-uplifting slogan: 'You can drink鈥攈elp the alcoholic who can't.' ('Can't'?) The International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled in favor of Britain in the Corfu Channel dispute with Albania. At the UN, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko denounced the newly formed NATO alliance as a tool for aggression against the USSR. The rising Chinese Communists, under a man then known to Western readership as Mao Tze-Tung, announced a limited willingness to bargain with the still-existing Chinese government in a city then known to the outside world as 'Peiping.'

All this was unknown to me as I nuzzled my mother's breast for the first time, and would certainly have happened in just the same way if I had not been born at all, or even conceived. One of the newspaper astrologists for that day addressed those whose birthday it was:

There are powerful rays from the planet Mars, the war god, in your horoscope for your coming year, and this always means a chance to battle if you want to take it up. Try to avoid such disturbances where women relatives or friends are concerned, because the outlook for victory upon your part in such circumstances is rather dark. If you must fight, pick a man!

Sage counsel no doubt, which I wish I had imbibed with that same maternal lactation, but impartially offered also to the many people born on that day who were also destined to die on it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.”
― Enver Hoxha

“Poetry

Poetry,
How did you find your way to me?
My mother does not know Albanian well,
She writes letters like Aragon, without commas and periods,
My father roamed the seas in his youth,
But you have come,
Walking down the pavement of my quiet city of stone,
And knocked timidly at the door of my three-storey house,
At Number 16.

There are many things I have loved and hated in life,
For many a problem I have been an 'open city',
But anyway...
Like a young man returning home late at night,
Exhausted and broken by his nocturnal wanderings,
Here too am I, returning to you,
Worn out after another escapade.

And you,
Not holding my infidelity against me,
Stroke my hair tenderly,
My last stop,
Poetry.”
― Ismail Kadare

“Anon from the castle walls
The crescent banner falls,
And the crowd beholds instead,
Like a portent in the sky,
Iskander's banner fly,
The Black Eagle with double head;
And a shout ascends on high,
For men's souls are tired of the Turks,
And their wicked ways and works,
That have made of Ak-Hissar
A city of the plague;
And the loud, exultant cry
That echoes wide and far
Is: "Long live Scanderbeg!”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“M毛 i rreziksh毛m 毛sht毛 armiku i brendsh毛m se sa armiku i jasht毛m.”
― Inf. Sebahate Sahiti

“P毛rndryshe, n毛 qoft毛 se sht毛pit毛 botuese mjaftohen t毛 shesin vepra t毛 p毛rkthyera, t毛 cilat jan毛 seleksionuar gjetiu, at毛her毛 kthehemi te muhabeti i free riders; meq毛 ashtu sht毛pit毛 botuese heqin dor毛 nga roli i tyre kulturor, duke u mjaftuar me shitjen e qofteve.”
― Ardian Vehbiu

“Albania鈥檚 future is towards Christianity, since it is connected with it culturally, old memories, and its pre-Turkish nostalgia. With the passing of time, the late Islamic religion that came with the Ottomans should evaporate (at first in Albania and then in Kosova), until it will be replaced by Christianity or, to be more exact, Christian culture. Thus from one evil (the prohibition of religion in 1967) goodness will come. The Albanian nation will make a great historical correction that will accelerate its unity with its mother continent: Europe”
― Ismail Kadare, M毛ngjeset n毛 Kafe Rostand

“The difference between a communist party and a bourgeois party in State leadership is not a 'minor' one, but a very great, profound, class difference of principle, which cannot be reduced to the 'rotation' of party leaders in political power”
― Enver Hoxha, Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice

“Essere uomo ha i suoi vantaggi. Fai poco o niente. Sono le donne che lavorano. Gli uomini, sopratutto quando c鈥櫭� la neve, oziano. Danno ordini, bevono e puliscono i fucili. O li usano. Ci sono stati molti morti ammazzati, da quando in Albania 猫 arrivata la libert脿.”
― Elvira Dones, Sworn Virgin

“Greater Albania?!", this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.”
― Ismail Kadare

“Me ka marr malli per Shqiperin, por jo per Shqipetaret.”
― Beta Metani' Marashi

“Bo partia znaczy艂a wi臋cej ni偶 B贸g, B贸g nie istnia艂. A nawet je艣li istnia艂, to by艂 wszechmocny tylko w teorii, a patia by艂a wszechmocna w praktyce. B贸g nie potrafi艂聽zniszczy膰 partii, ale partia potrafi艂a zniszczy膰 Boga.”
― Ma艂gorzata Rejmer, B艂oto s艂odsze ni偶 mi贸d. G艂osy komunistycznej Albanii

“A chipped concrete bunker shaped like an infantryman鈥檚 helmet was tilted insolently on a mound at the track鈥檚 edge.”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Migrant

“We must fight within the framework of the Republican Constitution,' they say. And the bourgeoisie says, 'Fight as much as you like within the bars of the cage of my Constitution because this does me no harm.”
― Enver Hoxha, Eurocommunism Is Anti-Communism

“Religion mattered at a deep level, which must help to explain why none of these people went over to Islam; but in most cases it did not direct their lives, nor did it prevent some of them from cultivating their connection with a powerful relative who was a Muslim convert. Whilst the fact that they were Catholics from one of Christendom鈥檚 frontier zones may have given them an enhanced sense of their Catholicism, the fact that they were Albanians, connected by language, blood and history to Ottoman subjects and Ottoman territory, gave them an ability to see things also from something more like an Ottoman perspective”
― Noel Malcolm, Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

“Pewnego razu zdumieni mieszka艅cy Szkodry ujrzeli przy g艂贸wnej ulicy nowy, zupe艂nie niezwyk艂y sklep, pe艂en s艂odyczy, owoc贸w i聽od lat niewidzianych smako艂yk贸w. Zaraz zebra艂 si臋 t艂um, ale na rozkaz policjant贸w musia艂 si臋 rozst膮pi膰, by zrobi膰 miejsce pi臋knie ubranej kobiecie, kt贸ra zdecydowanym tonem recytowa艂a w聽oko kamery: 鈥濷skar偶acie nas, 偶e w聽Albanii nie ma jedzenia. Patrzcie, k艂amcy! W聽Albanii p贸艂ki s膮 pe艂ne!鈥�. Na potrzeby materia艂u do lady dopuszczono trzy rozradowane osoby, po czym sklep zamkni臋to, a聽t艂um rozgoniono.”
― Ma艂gorzata Rejmer, B艂oto s艂odsze ni偶 mi贸d. G艂osy komunistycznej Albanii

“Alba艅ski komunizm by艂 jak twierdza, z聽kt贸rej mur贸w codziennie odpada艂o kilka kamieni. Albo jak podupad艂a drewniana cha艂upa z聽przegni艂ym dachem, ple艣ni膮 na 艣cianach i聽zalanymi fundamentami, kt贸ra, o聽dziwo, ci膮gle jeszcze stoi, cho膰 wiatr historii dmucha w聽jej 艣ciany.”
― Ma艂gorzata Rejmer, B艂oto s艂odsze ni偶 mi贸d. G艂osy komunistycznej Albanii

“Cierpie膰 w聽stopniu znikomym to jakby nie cierpie膰 wcale, to w艂a艣ciwie poniek膮d cieszy膰 si臋 ze 艣mierci聽鈥� zaleca si臋 zatem kilka lat przymusowego odosobnienia, by osobnik reakcyjny m贸g艂 w聽spokoju przemy艣le膰 swoj膮 postaw臋.”
― Ma艂gorzata Rejmer, B艂oto s艂odsze ni偶 mi贸d. G艂osy komunistycznej Albanii

“I was just thinking about Byron,鈥� said Jude. 鈥楬e went to Greece, you know, Athens, during his gap years. A young man doing the grand tour; loved ancient Greece and all it stood for; put it all down in a poetic travelogue, Childe Harold鈥檚 Pilgrimage 鈥� yeah. There鈥檚 a bit about Albania in it too.鈥� Jude covered his mouth and coughed lightly. 鈥樷€淢orn dawns and with it stern Albania鈥檚 hills 鈥� birds, beasts of prey, and wilder men appear 鈥� and gathering storms around, convulse the closing year.”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Migrant

“Although the proletariat in the capitalist states may be dressed in the nylon materials which the 'consumer society' produces, in fact it remains the proletariat.”
― Enver Hoxha, Eurocommunism Is Anti-Communism

“In our country, the welfare of the people is improved, on one hand, by increasing the pay of workers and, on the other, by reducing prices and increasing the funds allocated to free social services like kindergartens, creches, schools, public health and so on.”
― Harilla Papajorgja, Our Friends Ask...

“A Party Central Committee and Government decree stipulates that, as from November 1969, the population will be exempted from all taxation. Thus, the income of the budget will be secured entirely from the socialist sector of our economy.”
― Harilla Papajorgja, Our Friends Ask...

“And what does this apologist of the bourgeoisie have in mind when he talks of the extension of the 芦dimensions of true freedom禄 for the workers? Is it the 芦freedom禄 to be unemployed, the 芦freedom禄 to leave their families and homeland in order to sell the power of their muscles and minds to the capitalists of the Western world, or is it the 芦freedom禄 to pay taxes, to be discriminated against and savagely exploited by the old and the new Yugoslav bourgeoisie, as well as by the foreign bourgeoisie?”
― Enver Hoxha, Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice

“It was an oblong, two-storey building with crumbling, dirty-red roof tiles and mauve plasterwork on the outside walls that had fallen off in chunks. Across it the faded slogan 鈥楲ong Live the Albanian Communist Party鈥� was flaking off. It now had a wooden plaque on the door reading 鈥楽h毛nomadh Church鈥�: an epitaph for the ideology that had claimed Albania as 鈥榯he world鈥檚 first atheist state鈥�, thought Jude.”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Silencer

“The window glass was cold as Jude touched his nose to its surface. He looked north over the centre of Tirana and drank in the thrill of the panorama. From a restaurant in the Sky Tower he could see down over the lush, green square of land criss-crossed with paths that was Rinia Park. He had arranged to meet Edona there at 3pm. To his left the apartment blocks clustered densely away to the horizon in colours of mustard, olive and denim blue. Ahead he could make out the rouge and yellow government ministry buildings on the edge of Skanderbeu Square, and the white needle of the Et鈥檋em Bey Mosque. His eyes turned to the east past the black glass panelled Twin Towers and concrete Pyramid to the traffic flowing up the Gjergj Fishta Boulevard, where the harsh mid-day sunlight was glinting off car roofs and windscreens. Beyond that, through a haze of heat and light smog, Mount Dajti rose up to the blue, utterly cloudless sky.”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Migrant

“The window glass was cold as Jude touched his nose to its surface. He looked north over the centre of Tirana and drank in the thrill of the panorama. From a restaurant in the Sky Tower he could see down over the lush, green square of land criss-crossed with paths that was Rinia Park. He had arranged to meet Edona there at 3pm. To his left the apartment blocks clustered densely away to the horizon in colours of mustard, olive and denim blue. Ahead he could make out the rouge and yellow government ministry buildings on the edge of Skanderbeu Square, and the white needle of the Et鈥檋em Bey Mosque. His eyes turned to the east past the black glass panelled Twin Towers and concrete Pyramid to the traffic flowing up the Gjergj Fishta Boulevard, where the harsh mid-day sunlight was glinting off car roofs and windscreens. Beyond that, through a haze of heat and light smog, Mount Dajti rose up to the blue, utterly cloudless sky. (From 'The Silencer').”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Silencer

“The van鈥檚 front window had a knot of cracks in it like a spider鈥檚 web, and more cracks striding out to the edges like the creature鈥檚 legs.”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Silencer

“Todav铆a hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si la hubiese tomado como reh茅n. Dajti estaba f铆sicamente alejada, aunque siempre la ten铆amos presente. Nunca fui hasta all铆. Todav铆a no s茅 qu茅 significaba "recibido desde Dajti"; es decir: qui茅n recib铆a qu茅 de qui茅n y c贸mo. Supongo que lo que hab铆a all铆 era un sat茅lite o un repetidor de televisi贸n. Dajti estaba en todos los hogares, en todas las conversaciones y en la mente de todos. "Lo vi anoche a trav茅s de Dajti" significaba: "Estuve vivo. Viol茅 la ley. Pude pensar". Durante cinco minutos. Durante una hora. Durante un d铆a entero. Durante el tiempo que Dajti estuvo activo.”
― Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

“The window glass was cold as Jude touched his nose to its surface. He looked north over the centre of Tirana and drank in the thrill of the panorama. From a restaurant in the Sky Tower he could see down over the lush, green square of land criss-crossed with paths that was Rinia Park. He had arranged to meet Edona there at 3pm. To his left the apartment blocks clustered densely away to the horizon in colours of mustard, olive and denim blue. Ahead he could make out the rouge and yellow government ministry buildings on the edge of Skanderbeu Square, and the white needle of the Et鈥檋em Bey Mosque. His eyes turned to the east past the black glass panelled Twin Towers and concrete Pyramid to the traffic flowing up the Gjergj Fishta Boulevard, where the harsh mid-day sunlight was glinting off car roofs and windscreens. Beyond that, through a haze of heat and light smog, Mount Dajti rose up to the blue, utterly cloudless sky. (From 'The Silencer').”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Silencer

“Ja ajo, toka e huaj, tha me vete. Tok毛 si 莽do tok毛. Po ajo balt毛 e zez毛 si kudo, po ata guralec毛 midis, po ato rr毛nj毛 bar毛rash dhe po ai avull. E, megjithat毛, e huaj.”
― Ismail Kadare, The General of the Dead Army