Witold Gombrowicz Quotes - Page 2

• Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Admire, Great Poetry

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.43, Yale University Press

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• You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Beautiful, Mother, Son

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• You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Maturity, Mature, Company

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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 up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Boys, Feet, Want

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.113, Yale University Press

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• A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Liars, Brilliant, Total Recall

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