Tadeusz Konwicki Quotes

#1. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

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#2. Ever been in Jail?
No. But I'm often alone.

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#3. -I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels.
-What levels?
-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.

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#4. I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.

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#5. She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.

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#6. Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.

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#7. The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.

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#8. Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

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#9. In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

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#10. We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.

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#11. The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

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