77 Quotes by Witold Gombrowicz

If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

I am a collection of the family's body parts.

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

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.

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

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

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.