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Witold Gombrowicz quotes

Polish Novelist August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969

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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. Witold Gombrowicz
I even stopped walking to give some thought to the fact that everyone, after all, wants to be himself, so I too want to be myself, for example who would love syphilis, of course no one loves syphilis, but after all, a syphilitic man also wants to be himself, namely a syphilitic, it is easy to say "I want to be well again," and yet it sounds strange, as if to say "I don't want to be who I am. Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly..."
A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed. Witold Gombrowicz
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life. Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to..."
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. Witold Gombrowicz
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. Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "I am a collection of the family's body parts."
I am a collection of the family's body parts. Witold Gombrowicz
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 Witold Gombrowicz
Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by form, which is born between people. His "I", therefore, is marked for him in that "interhumanity." An eternal actor, but a natural one, because his artificiality is inborn, it makes up a feature of his humanity-to be a man means to be an actor-to be a man means to pretend to be a man-to be a man means to "act like" a man while not being one deep inside-to be... Witold Gombrowicz
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 Witold Gombrowicz
We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm. Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal."
Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal. Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one..."
Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides. Witold Gombrowicz
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. Witold Gombrowicz
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. Witold Gombrowicz

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