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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
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
There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity
— Witold Gombrowicz
A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.
— 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
Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
— Witold Gombrowicz
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
— Witold Gombrowicz
It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it is always too late to retreat.
— 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
Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.
— Witold Gombrowicz
I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever.
— Witold Gombrowicz
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
— Witold Gombrowicz
Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
— Witold Gombrowicz
