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

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

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

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

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

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

Witold Gombrowicz quotes: A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

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

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

Witold Gombrowicz quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

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

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

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

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

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

Witold Gombrowicz quotes: Our element is unending immaturity.

Our element is unending immaturity.

Witold Gombrowicz quotes: 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.

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

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

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

Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

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

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

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

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

Witold Gombrowicz quotes: Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Witold Gombrowicz quotes: 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!

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 quotes: There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity

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

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

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

Witold Gombrowicz quotes: 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!

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 quotes: Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Witold Gombrowicz quotes: Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

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

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