Witold Gombrowicz citations

“Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity… and here I am, reborn.”

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“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”

Witold Gombrowicz

“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”

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“Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.”

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“Our element is unending immaturity.”

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“I have never in my life needed God - from the infancy, since I was 5, I was self-sufficient.”

Witold Gombrowicz

“The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities.”

Witold Gombrowicz

“It is naive to believe that the admiration for a masterpiece is spontaneous. The admiration, to a great extent, is not born within people but between people, as if we forced each other to admire (while no one is “personally” enraptured).”

Witold Gombrowicz