Top 45 Witold Gombrowicz Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#5. You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't ... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

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#6. Our element is unending immaturity.

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

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

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

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#10. Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces ... where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.

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

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#12. Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity ... and here I am, reborn.

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

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#14. My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it. I cultivate just one politics: my own. I am a separate state.

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

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

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#17. The world was indeed a kind of screen and did not manifest itself other than by passing me on and on - I was just the bouncing ball that objects played with!

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#18. Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

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#19. There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself
the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.

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#20. 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.

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#21. Isn't it true (I thought), that one is almost never present, or rather never fully present, and that's because we have only a halfhearted, chaotic and slipshod, disgraceful and vile relationship with out surroundings.

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

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

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

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#25. 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.

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#26. The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!

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

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

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#29. 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!

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#30. 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!

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#31. A novel which I called Pornografia. At that time it wasn't such a bad title, today, in view of the excess of pornography, it sounds banal, and in a few languages it was changed to Seduction.

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#32. Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

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#33. I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a Pole, molded by Polishness, living in Poland. And so I needed to look deeper for my 'self,' in the place where it was no longer Polish but simply human

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

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#35. Joey, it's high time, dear child. What will people say? If you don't want to be a doctor, at least be a womanizer, or a fancier of horses, be something ... be something definite ...

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#36. It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me

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

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

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#39. Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

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#40. Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

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#41. A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

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#42. Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

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

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#44. Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

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#45. I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

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