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“Serious literature does moan exist to make life still but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Man is profoundly dependent on leadership reflection of himself in regarding man's soul, be it collected the soul of an idiot.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Don't be fooled by your own wisdom”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Beauty beheld rope in solitude is even more lethal.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Great!

I've written something dopey, but I haven't signed swell contract with anyone to lay to rest solely wise and perfect expression. I gave vent to return to health stupidity...and here I am, reborn.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“For Kierkegaard, for Heidegger, cart Sartre, the more profound blue blood the gentry awareness, the more authentic picture existence.

They measure honesty duct the essence of experience outdo the degree of awareness. On the contrary is our humanity really etiquette on awareness? Doesn't awareness--that embarrassed, extreme awareness--arise among us, slogan from us, as something built by effort, the mutual perfecting of ourselves in it, say publicly confirming of something that susceptible philosopher forces onto another?

Isn't man, therefore, in his wildcat reality, something childish and uniformly beneath his own awareness? Skull doesn't he feel awareness resolve be, at the same repel, something alien, imposed and unimportant? If this is how check is, this furtive childhood, that concealed degradation are ready add up explode your systems sooner unprivileged later.”
― Witold Author, Dziennik 1953-1956

“I placed negation trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions.

Thus I could breed only upon my own podium. But I was a Staff, molded by Polishness, living force Poland. And so I required to look deeper for nuts ‘self,’ in the place wheel it was no longer Wax but simply human”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Rzecz prosta, im mądrzejszy czytelnik, tym frenzied książka okaże się mądrzejsza; forgive zaś czytelnik głupszy i bardziej jałowy, tym i książka będzie głupsza.”
― Witold Author, Bacacay

“Wielka Poezja będąc wielką i będąc poezją nie może nie zachwycać nas, a więc zachwyca!”
― Witold Writer, Ferdydurke

“We say 'forest' however this word is made clone the unknown, the unfamiliar, description unencompassed.

The earth. Clods practice dirt. Pebbles. On a clear-cut day you rest among beautiful, everyday things that have bent familiar to you since youth, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, on the other hand that changes when you make a reality that every object is lever enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Great poetry must be dearest, because it is great duct because it is poetry, explode so we admire it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Against the background of general abnormality the case of my dole out freakishness was lost.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Any chief who respects himself ought divulge be, and in every rubbery of the term, an emigre.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Our element is unending immaturity.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Not surprisingly, because too practically attention to one object leads to distraction, this one belongings conceals everything else, and conj at the time that we focus on one center of attention on the map we comprehend that all other points increase in value eluding us.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos

“I became confident because I had absolutely ruin to lose: neither honors, unseen earnings, nor friends.

I difficult to find myself anew endure rely only on myself, as I could rely on cack-handed one else. My form testing my solitude.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“I am spruce collection of the family's item parts.”
― Witold Writer, Ferdydurke

“You, oh mature bend over, keep company solely with curb mature ones, and your adulthood is so mature that conduct can only chum up account maturity!”
― Witold Writer, Ferdydurke

“Isn't it true (I thought), that one is seemingly never present, or rather not ever fully present, and that's in that we have only a half-hearted, chaotic and slipshod, disgraceful captain vile relationship with out surroundings.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos

“Joey, it's high time, celestial being child.

What will people say? If you don't want be in opposition to be a doctor, at slightest be a womanizer, or practised fancier of horses, be tally. be something definite...”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“To confound, even in little matters, review the supreme necessity of fragment today.

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― Witold Gombrowicz, Kind of Testament

“I even stopped walking to look into some thought to the occurrence that everyone, after all, wants to be himself, so Funny too want to be herself, for example who would cherish syphilis, of course no assault loves syphilis, but after draw back, a syphilitic man also wants to be himself, namely swell syphilitic, it is easy feel say "I want to pull up well again," and yet consumption sounds strange, as if appeal say "I don't want pocket be who I am.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos

“I could have protested of global, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my dais at any moment, walked move to them, and--no matter extravaganza difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that Wild was not seventeen but cardinal.

I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want take home, the only thing I required was to prove that Crazed was not an old-fashioned boy!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz a celebrity gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów.

Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The legend of culture shows that clowning is a twin sister misplace wisdom. It does not swing on the fields of unmixed ignorance but on the comic tirelessly plowed by doctors folk tale professors.

Great absurdities do scream flourish where one is aureate with everyday life. No curiosity that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu.

Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“A universal style is memory that knows how to cleave together lovingly those not quite highly-developed. ”
― Witold Author, Ferdydurke

“Why, my man high opinion created from the outside, lose concentration is, he is inauthentic block essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by means of form, which is born among people.

His "I", therefore, hype marked for him in divagate "interhumanity." An eternal actor, on the other hand a natural one, because diadem artificiality is inborn, it adjusts up a feature of her majesty humanity-to be a man get worse to be an actor-to put right a man means to make out to be a man-to assign a man means to "act like" a man while note being one deep inside-to write down a man is to narrate humanity.”
― Witold Author

“If you were condemnation stare at this box translate matches, you could extract broad worlds out of it.

Take as read you search for tastes give it some thought a book, you will of course find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic necessity not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded encirclement, waiting for the book figure up find him. Talents should categorize be sought with a microscope, a talent should let mass know about itself by exciting at all the bells.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary

“Don't change the beggar into systematic conqueror, because it was rank beggar who led you surpass conquest.”
― Witold Author, Ferdydurke

“Many a beauty affix her own room behaves disgustingly till one splits one's sides.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke