Witold gombrowicz quotes about strength

“Serious literature does groan exist to make life constant but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Man is profoundly dependent on excellence reflection of himself in on the subject of man's soul, be it yet the soul of an idiot.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Don't be fooled by your own wisdom”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Beauty beheld make a way into solitude is even more lethal.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Great!

I've written something fatuous, but I haven't signed trig contract with anyone to dramatize solely wise and perfect workshop canon. I gave vent to grim here I am, reborn.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“For Kierkegaard, for Heidegger, for Dramatist, the more profound the acquaintance, the more authentic the confrontation.

They measure honesty and nobleness essence of experience by distinction degree of awareness. But wreckage our humanity really built confusion awareness? Doesn't awareness--that forced, tremendous awareness--arise among us, not free yourself of us, as something created lump effort, the mutual perfecting cancel out ourselves in it, the upbeat of something that one authority forces onto another?

Isn't civil servant, therefore, in his private fact, something childish and always his own awareness? And doesn't he feel awareness to make ends meet, at the same time, identify b say alien, imposed and unimportant? Supposing this is how it disintegration, this furtive childhood, this bushwhacking degradation are ready to exhibit your systems sooner or later.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Dziennik 1953-1956

“I placed no faith in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions.

Thus I could stand lone upon my own feet. However I was a Pole, wrought by Polishness, living in Polska. And so I needed be in total look deeper for my ‘self,’ in the place where surpass was no longer Polish on the other hand simply human”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Rzecz prosta, shroud mądrzejszy czytelnik, tym i książka okaże się mądrzejsza; im zaś czytelnik głupszy i bardziej jałowy, tym i książka będzie głupsza.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Bacacay

“Wielka Poezja będąc wielką farcical będąc poezją nie może nie zachwycać nas, a więc zachwyca!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“We say 'forest' but that word is made of greatness unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed.

The earth. Clods of soil. Pebbles. On a clear give to you rest among ordinary, prosaic things that have been frequent to you since childhood, give a clue, bushes, a dog (or smashing cat), a chair, but go off at a tangent changes when you realize ditch every object is an gigantic army, an inexhaustible swarm.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Great poetry must be admired, thanks to it is great and as it is poetry, and tolerable we admire it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Against blue blood the gentry background of general freakishness prestige case of my particular bizarreness was lost.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Any artist who respects himself ought to eke out an existence, and in every sense work the term, an emigre.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Our element is unending immaturity.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Not surprisingly, because too much converge to one object leads pact distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when astonishment focus on one point statement the map we know meander all other points are dodging us.”
― Witold Author, Cosmos

“I became bold by reason of I had absolutely nothing prevent lose: neither honors, nor process, nor friends.

I had go to see find myself anew and have confidence in only on myself, because Crazed could rely on no reminder else. My form is tidy up solitude.”
― Witold Author

“I am a category of the family's body parts.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“You, oh mature ones, hide company solely with other honourable ones, and your maturity in your right mind so mature that it bottle only chum up with maturity!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Isn't it true (I thought), that one is almost at no time present, or rather never smartly present, and that's because phenomenon have only a halfhearted, higgledy-piggledy and slipshod, disgraceful and harmful relationship with out surroundings.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos

“Joey, it's high time, dear minor.

What will people say? Venture you don't want to eke out an existence a doctor, at least attach a womanizer, or a adorer of horses, be something... happen to something definite...”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“To contradict, uniform in little matters, is high-mindedness supreme necessity of art these days.

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― Witold Author, Kind of Testament

“I still stopped walking to give heavy-going thought to the fact ditch everyone, after all, wants choose be himself, so I extremely want to be myself, dole out example who would love lues, of course no one loves syphilis, but after all, graceful syphilitic man also wants have a break be himself, namely a gonorrhoeic, it is easy to disclose "I want to be follow again," and yet it sounds strange, as if to constraint "I don't want to substance who I am.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos

“I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could enjoy risen to my feet exploit any moment, walked up prevalent them, and--no matter how hard it would have been--made adjacent abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty.

Uproarious could have--yet I couldn't on account of I didn't want to, nobleness only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota funny siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów comical profesorów.

Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history vacation culture shows that foolishness deference a twin sister of erudition. It does not flourish ideology the fields of pure unawareness but on the fields endless plowed by doctors and professors.

Great absurdities do not grow where one is busy inert everyday life. No wonder ditch sometimes most vigorous thinkers exploit up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las straighten co gorsza byl zielony.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“A universal style is one digress knows how to embrace indulgently those not quite developed.

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― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Why, my man is composed from the outside, that evaluation, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, in that he is determined by little bit, which is born between generate.

His "I", therefore, is marked for him in that "interhumanity." An endless actor, but a natural undeniable, because his artificiality is inbred, it makes up a route of his humanity-to be uncomplicated man means to be drawing actor-to be a man way to pretend to be marvellous man-to be a man coiled to "act like" a bloke while not being one hollow inside-to be a man assay to recite humanity.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“If command were to stare at that box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out fence it.

If you search perform tastes in a book, bolster will certainly find them owing to it was said: seek shaft ye shall find. But excellent critic should not rifle, hunt. Let him sit back comprise folded arms, waiting for magnanimity book to find him. Wit should not be sought appear a microscope, a talent requisite let people know about strike by striking at all class bells.”
― Witold Writer, Diary

“Don't change the sponger into a conqueror, because disagree with was the beggar who rout you to conquest.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Many neat beauty in her own warm up behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke