"I am a collection of the family's body…" — Witold Gombrowicz

I am a collection of the family's body parts. - Witold Gombrowicz

"I am a collection of the family's body parts."

— 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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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