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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. — Witold Gombrowicz

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre. — Witold Gombrowicz

The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs. — Witold Gombrowicz

A brilliant liar; he has total recall. — Witold Gombrowicz

There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book. — Witold Rybczynski

I am a collection of the family's body parts. — Witold Gombrowicz

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged. — Witold Gombrowicz

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost. — Witold Gombrowicz

Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest. — Witold Gombrowicz

Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree. — Witold Gombrowicz

Our element is unending immaturity. — Witold Gombrowicz

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class. — Witold Gombrowicz

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot. — Witold Gombrowicz

Man does not fear death, only the suffering. — Witold Gombrowicz

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today. — Witold Gombrowicz

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead. — Witold Gombrowicz

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal. — Witold Gombrowicz

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity! — Witold Gombrowicz

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. — Witold Lutoslawski

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy. — Witold Pilecki

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom — Witold Gombrowicz

Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man — Witold Gombrowicz

Bizarrely, I am convinced that a writer incapable of talking about himself is not a complete writer. - WITOLD GOMBROWICZ, — Clive James

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed. — Witold Gombrowicz

I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever. — Witold Gombrowicz

A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It's like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one - it's too much! — Witold Gombrowicz

A man fighting for his life can do more than he ever imagined he could. — Witold Pilecki

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz

The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. — Witold Rybczynski

You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home. — Witold Rybczynski

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. — Witold Gombrowicz

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. — Witold Gombrowicz

For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander? — Witold Rybczynski

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. — Witold Pilecki

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. — Witold Rybczynski

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record. — Witold Walczak

Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides. — Witold Gombrowicz

There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things. — Witold Rybczynski

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million. — Witold Pilecki

The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself. — Witold Rybczynski

It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it is always too late to retreat. — Witold Gombrowicz

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz

There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity — Witold Gombrowicz