"It is in the prime of youth that……" — Witold Gombrowicz
"It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged."
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Witold Gombrowicz
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25 Quotes by Witold Gombrowicz
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You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when 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…
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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…
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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…
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to…
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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…
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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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I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked…
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
— Pietro Aretino
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art…
— Saint Augustine
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never…
— Amelia Barr
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism…
— Annie Besant
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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of…
— Annie Besant
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
— Michael Bloomberg
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I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not…
— Ben Affleck
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