Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes - Page 2

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• A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

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  Writing, Men, Genius

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• Value your words. Each one may be the last.

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  Good Life, May, Lasts

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• On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

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  Abyss, Edges

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• Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

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  Stupid, Men, Doubt

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• The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

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  World, Window, Newspapers

  "Unkempt Thoughts" (1957) by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

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  Tired, Exclamation Marks, Question Mark

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• Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

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  Atheist, Believe, Comeback

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• Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump

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  Writing, Order, Wings

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• You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

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  Inspirational, Patience, Learning

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• The first requisite for immortality is death.

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  Firsts, Immortality

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• Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

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  Wall, Cells, Next

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• You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories

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  Depression, Memories, Eye

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• Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

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  Funny, Truth, Lying

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• Politics: a Trojan horse race.

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  Horse, Race, Trojans

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1957.

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• If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

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  Stupid, Pay, Idiot

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• Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

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  Lying, Writing, Waiting

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• Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

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  Men, Generations, Next

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• At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

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  Cliche, Ends

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• The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

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  Men, Bows, He Man

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• Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

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  Eye, Atheism, Puritan

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• Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

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  Writing, Thinking, Stupidity

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• Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

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  Gossip, Ancient, Myth

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• Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

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  Country, Frontiers, Other Countries

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• Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

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  Writing, Advice, Ironic

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1962.

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• If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

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  Silence, Language, Foreigners

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