Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes - Page 4

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• Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

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  May, Turning Your Back, Sides

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• Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

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  Eye, Swimming, Rivers

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• The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

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  Atheism, Mouths, Littles

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

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  Gossip, Myth

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• Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

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  Clock, Rely

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• Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

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  Determination, Commitment, Waiting

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• Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

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  Zero, Thinking, Earth

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• A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

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  Short Life, Fats, Persons

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• Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

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  Blood, Atheism, Devil

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• All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

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  Men, Hands

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• In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

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  War, Ideas, People

  "Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

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  Love, Eye, Self Love

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• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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  Luck, Progress, Use

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• Oh, to know God's private address.

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  Addresses, Knowing God, Knows

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• A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

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  Doe, Censorship, Excited

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• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

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  Change, Happy, Moving

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

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  Honesty, Writing, Artist

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• To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?

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  Should

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• Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

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  Wisdom, Nations

  Unkempt Thoughts (1962)

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• Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

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  Law, People, Lawlessness

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• Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

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  Writing, Fire, Imagination

  "Minor Prejudices : Essays on the Arts & Literature, Cultural Perspectives, and Personal Reflections" by Azizul Hakeem, (p. 81), 2008.

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• There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

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  Atheism, Trying, Sides

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• Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

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  Darkness, Atheism, Burning

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• Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

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  Writing, Ignorance, Law

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• Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

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  Advice, Trying, Branches

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