"Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal." — Witold Gombrowicz

"Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal."

— Witold Gombrowicz

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25 Quotes by Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Gombrowicz has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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