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Raphael Canossa

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Raphael Canossa was born in 1968, the year the Prague Spring was crushed. He is very mixed-race, his ancestors being Jewish, Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian and German.
He worked as a builder, a bricklayer, a welder, a wood-cutter (logger), a lathe operator, a bee-keeper, a stud-farm worker, a driver, a tourist guide, a book translator, a teacher of English as a foreign language and an art gallery manager. In the pre-Covid era he used to travel to European and Asian countries searching for inspiration and vivid details that inevitably found their way into the books he’s written, along with a love for various places dotting our globe, the people living there and their rich history and intricate stories. His intimate knowledge of life aspects of Raphael Canossa was born in 1968, the year the Prague Spring was crushed. He is very mixed-race, his ancestors being Jewish, Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian and German.
He worked as a builder, a bricklayer, a welder, a wood-cutter (logger), a lathe operator, a bee-keeper, a stud-farm worker, a driver, a tourist guide, a book translator, a teacher of English as a foreign language and an art gallery manager. In the pre-Covid era he used to travel to European and Asian countries searching for inspiration and vivid details that inevitably found their way into the books he’s written, along with a love for various places dotting our globe, the people living there and their rich history and intricate stories. His intimate knowledge of life aspects of various Eastern European peoples and deep insight into their histories and cultures lets him create fascinating stories based on true events and real people’s fates.
He has been studying Hungary, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, former Yugoslavia and Albania - all the Eastern bloc countries that were opposing the West while they were constructing their “people’s democracies” under the keen supervision of their Soviet masters. Vast lands and numerous peoples were bound together by the steel hoops of the Communist order which became a new religion and way of everyday life. The European Eastern bloc dictatorships had committed beastly barbarities, first of all against their own peoples, and left striking examples of architectural memorials to Communism like Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Druzhba Hotel in Prague, People's House in Bucharest, Rossplatz in Leipzig, Hotel Narcis in Kosovo, regional government building in Presov. They still dot our continents like ziggurats and pyramids glorifying the ghastly powers of Belshazzar and Ramsesses, striking the eye with their brutal beauty. The Communist Babylon in Eastern Europe was crushed during the 1989 “Spring of nations”, along with the Berlin wall and barbed wire fences across the Schengen boundaries but many ghosts from the Communist past are still to be found in the people’s hearts and souls and in their behavior and views, despite their paying in Euros for their Tesco and Lidl goods, and trips to Swiss and Austrian ski resorts and Cote d’Azur and Costa Smeralda beach hotels.
Raphael Canossa: “While Communist era traits are still lurking within the human brains and manners, I remember with adoration the few brave people who ventured to oppose the Socialist regime when it was at top of its power. At that time it was disposing of its opponents with the routine cruelty of Genghis Khan suppressing the newly conquered territories. But still there were desperately courageous men and women and even children defying the regime’s pervasive and all-encompassing ways and choosing to remain true Europeans, sticking to human dignity and values. I’m trying to keep the memories of those people alive in my books written for today’s people.”
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Raphael Canossa's Blog: RAPHAEL CANOSSA's Blog: Nobody’s perfect but in God and

When will we live on Mars

What I’m thinking about… The progress is getting faster with every passing year. Could the people come to live on Mars in the nearest future? Say in some 20-30 years from now? As NASA chief scientist Jim Green told, humans will "absolutely" be on Mars in the future. And the first person to go is likely living today, he said. Heavens, that will change our life, absolutely. Just to think of it!

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“The tyrants die, sooner or later, and the sands of time cover up their graves, but not their worst deeds, which often grow through like some rotten seeds of Evil, never to be eradicated, again and again. That means, sadly, that the tyrants and greatest evil-makes are indeed immortal, anyway much more immortal than their guiltless victims.”
― Raphael Canossa, Love and Die Twice: Between Passion and Destiny

tags: blame, cruelty-and-hatred, death, evil, philosophy, raphael-canossa, redemption, sacrifice, sin, worst

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“Nothing is in vain -- not even the tears and sufferings and pain, not even the frightful death, because the "Wheel of Life" rolls on and brings us still closer to the brink of happy world to come.”
― Raphael Canossa, Business as Usual

tags: be-yourself-quote, human-nature, individuality, inspirational, life, mistakes, philosophy, raphael-canossa, reality, worst

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“No dirty work is too dirty for the one who loves living in dirt, and enjoys wallowing in it like a turtle in the ocean”
― Raphael Canossa, Love and Die Twice: Between Passion and Destiny

tags: ambitions, dream, friends, friendship, god, life, passion, wisdom, work-ethic

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“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: beauty, hope, inspirational, joy

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“You are not rich until you have a rich heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart