List of Witold Gombrowicz Quotes

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Witold Gombrowicz
Total Quotes 30
A brilliant liar; he has total recall.
Liars Brilliant Total Recall
I could have protested of course, who says i couldn't--i could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that i was not seventeen but thirty. i could have--yet i couldn't because i didn't want to, the only thing i wanted was to prove that i was not an old-fashioned boy!
Boys Feet Want
You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
Maturity Mature Company
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
Beautiful Mother Son
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.
Admire Great Poetry
A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.
Style Embrace Know How
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.
Fighting Artist Men
I am a collection of the family's body parts.
Body Collections
There were three of us; witkiewicz, bruno schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the polish avant-garde between the wars. only witkiewicz remains to be discovered.
War Three Avant Garde
Wherever i see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there i must commit some indecent act.
Virtue Commit Fatherland
Man does not fear death, only the suffering.
Men Suffering Doe
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.
Maturity Men Phrases
  • Born: August 4, 1904
  • Died: July 24, 1969
  • Occupation: Novelist
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