Cytaty Witold Gombrowicz (original) (raw)
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.
Art Ineptitude Style
Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
Fooled
Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.
Men Reflection Soul
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
Doe Literature Serious
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
Earning Honor Solitude
Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
Foolishness Twin Sister Twins
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
Ass Differences Enough
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to resort more and more to very small, almost invisible pleasures, little extras. You've no idea how great one becomes with these little details, it's incredible how one grows.
Ideas Littles Want
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
Artist Ought Term
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
Distinguished Lectures Valet
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.
Here I Am Stupid Wise
Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.
Attention Focus Maps
Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
Solitude
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.
Class Powerful Reading
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
Backgrounds Cases Lost
To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
Art Littles Today
Our element is unending immaturity.
Elements Immaturity Unending
We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.
Army Cat Dog
It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.
Maturity Men Phrases
Man does not fear death, only the suffering.
Doe Men Suffering
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