Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
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Do not make gods in your own images.
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We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.
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At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
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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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The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
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Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
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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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It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.
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I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
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Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
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When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
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Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.
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Pants get shiny even on a throne.