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Witold Gombrowicz quotes

Polish Novelist August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969

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Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the..."
Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest. Witold Gombrowicz
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... Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme..."
To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today. Witold Gombrowicz
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! Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every..."
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre. Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Don't be fooled by your own wisdom"
Don't be fooled by your own wisdom Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because..."
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in..."
Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot. Witold Gombrowicz
I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy! Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "this furtive childhood, this concealed degradation is ready to..."
...this furtive childhood, this concealed degradation is ready to explode your systems sooner or later. Witold Gombrowicz
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! Witold Gombrowicz
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. Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "Against the background of general freakishness the case of my..."
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost. Witold Gombrowicz
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! Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the..."
I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever. Witold Gombrowicz

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