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Stanislaw Lec
March 6, 1909 - May 7, 1996
Nationality: Polish
Category: Poet

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

   

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

   

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

   

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

   

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

   

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

   

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

   

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

   

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

   

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

   

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

   

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

   

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

   

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

   

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

   

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

   

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

   

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

   

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

   

The first requisite for immortality is death.

   

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