"Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it……" — Stanislaw Lem
"Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote."
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53 Quotes by Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem has 53 quotes on this site.
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We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
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You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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There are no answers, only choices,
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Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible,…
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When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up…
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Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here…
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Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery,…
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Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
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Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who…
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More Don Quixote Quotes
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if…
— Georges Bernanos
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I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the…
— Dominic Chianese
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
— William Faulkner
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I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no…
— Anais Nin
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There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we…
— James E. Faust
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful…
— Bernie Siegel
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A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always…
— Thomas Beecham
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For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don…
— Carlos Fuentes
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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the…
— Billy Corgan
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