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Authors
Stanislaw Lec
Polish
Poet
About the author
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Man
#Thoughts
#Fleas
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Work
#Art
#Youth
#Age
#Nature
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Patience
#First
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Eyes
#Reality
#Memories
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Man
#Doubt
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Feet
#Joy
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Words
#May
#Value
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#World
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Books
#Reading
#Pleasure
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#People
#War
#Ideas
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Monuments
The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Death
#First
#Immortality
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.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#First
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Progress
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Sacrifice
#Mankind
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Truth
#Lie
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Time
#Life
#People
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Worth
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Work
#Lies
#Advertising
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Stanislaw Lec,
Polish
Poet
#Heart
#Trust
#Blood