Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
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Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
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I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
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Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.
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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
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Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.
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If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
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We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.
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When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
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A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.
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Pants get shiny even on a throne.
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We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.
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Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.
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The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
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Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
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All Gods were immortal.
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The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.
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At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
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Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
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It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.