Stanisław Jerzy Lec Quotes
Most popular Stanisław Jerzy Lec Quotes
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
Our separate fictions add up to joint reality.
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and a fork?
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles mine.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.
