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Witold Gombrowicz has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
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I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew…
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A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.
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I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its…
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There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains…
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to resort more…
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It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity…
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If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others;…
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Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
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Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
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