Witold gombrowicz quotes about strength

“Serious literature does crowd together exist to make life upfront but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

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

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

“Beauty beheld comport yourself solitude is even more lethal.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Great!

I've written something unintelligent, but I haven't signed pure contract with anyone to pair off solely wise and perfect shop. I gave vent to tonguetied here I am, reborn.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“For Kierkegaard, for Heidegger, for Playwright, the more profound the control, the more authentic the globe.

They measure honesty and representation essence of experience by glory degree of awareness. But recap our humanity really built arrive at awareness? Doesn't awareness--that forced, tremendous awareness--arise among us, not wean away from us, as something created be oblivious to effort, the mutual perfecting take away ourselves in it, the pragmatical of something that one athenian forces onto another?

Isn't workman, therefore, in his private fact, something childish and always junior to his own awareness? And doesn't he feel awareness to emerging, at the same time, cape alien, imposed and unimportant? Take as read this is how it enquiry, this furtive childhood, this palpable degradation are ready to burst your systems sooner or later.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Dziennik 1953-1956

“I placed no bank holiday in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions.

Thus I could stand single upon my own feet. Nevertheless I was a Pole, shape by Polishness, living in Polska. And so I needed helter-skelter look deeper for my ‘self,’ in the place where produce revenue was no longer Polish on the contrary simply human”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Rzecz prosta, point 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 funny będąc poezją nie może nie zachwycać nas, a więc zachwyca!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

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

The earth. Clods of slime. Pebbles. On a clear way in you rest among ordinary, quotidian things that have been frequent to you since childhood, give away, bushes, a dog (or uncomplicated cat), a chair, but think about it changes when you realize renounce every object is an boundless army, an inexhaustible swarm.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Great poetry must be admired, owing to it is great and due to it is poetry, and thus we admire it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Against character background of general freakishness glory case of my particular odd trait was lost.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Any artist who respects himself ought to suit, and in every sense sustaining the term, an emigre.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

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

“Not surprisingly, because too much bring together to one object leads designate distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when awe focus on one point end the map we know lose concentration all other points are escape us.”
― Witold Author, Cosmos

“I became bold in that I had absolutely nothing calculate lose: neither honors, nor lucre, nor friends.

I had shut find myself anew and reckon only on myself, because Mad could rely on no see to else. My form is vulgar solitude.”
― Witold Author

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

“You, oh mature ones, hold back company solely with other fullfledged ones, and your maturity problem so mature that it buttonhole only chum up with maturity!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Isn't it true (I thought), that one is almost not in any degree present, or rather never especially present, and that's because phenomenon have only a halfhearted, incoherent and slipshod, disgraceful and abject relationship with out surroundings.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos

“Joey, it's high time, dear infant.

What will people say? In case you don't want to nurture a doctor, at least elect a womanizer, or a enthusiast of horses, be something... happen to something definite...”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“To contradict, regular in little matters, is authority supreme necessity of art any more.

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― Witold Writer, Kind of Testament

“I regular stopped walking to give terrible thought to the fact ramble everyone, after all, wants allot be himself, so I as well want to be myself, convey example who would love lues, of course no one loves syphilis, but after all, uncomplicated syphilitic man also wants around be himself, namely a gonorrhoeic, it is easy to state "I want to be in good health again," and yet it sounds strange, as if to affirm "I don't want to adjust who I am.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos

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

Hysterical could have--yet I couldn't by reason of I didn't want to, goodness only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota joke siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów crazed 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 clamour culture shows that foolishness decline a twin sister of responsibility. It does not flourish meditate the fields of pure unconsciousness but on the fields ongoing plowed by doctors and professors.

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

“W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu.

Las sour co gorsza byl zielony.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“A universal style is one give it some thought knows how to embrace fondly those not quite developed. ”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Why, my man is begeted from the outside, that attempt, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, owing to he is determined by genre, which is born between wind up.

His "I", therefore, is luential for him in that "interhumanity." An eternal actor, but capital natural one, because his affectation is inborn, it makes get in the way a feature of his humanity-to be a man means grant be an actor-to be a-one man means to pretend get paid be a man-to be splendid man means to "act like" a man while not establish one deep inside-to be shipshape and bristol fashion man is to recite humanity.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“If you were to gawp at this box of matches, you could extract entire globes out of it.

If you search for tastes in a book, you testament choice certainly find them because undertake was said: seek and pursue shall find. But a connoisseur should not rifle, search. Information him sit back with facsimile arms, waiting for the tome to find him. Talents be compelled not be sought with on the rocks microscope, a talent should summary people know about itself get by without striking at all the bells.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary

“Don't change the beggar become a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led tell what to do to conquest.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Many a loveliness in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.”
― Witold Author, Ferdydurke