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A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

Brilliant

Liars

Total Recall

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

Artist

Ought

Term

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Solitude

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Foolishness

Twin Sister

Twins

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.

Here I Am

Stupid

Wise

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.

Class

Powerful

Reading

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.

Earning

Honor

Solitude

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

Distinguished

Lectures

Valet

Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

Doe

Men

Suffering

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.

Attention

Focus

Maps

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Quotes by Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz

A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

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

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

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.

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 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.

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

Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

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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