in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?
Ryszard KapuscinskiAbout author
- Author's profession: Journalist
- Nationality: polish
- Born: March 4, 1932
- Died: January 23, 2007
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