Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.
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No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
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Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
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No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
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Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of
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No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
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An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
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As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.
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Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.
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I love eggs fried over medium.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.
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Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
