Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
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Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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I love food and I love living.
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In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
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So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.
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A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.
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Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
