Polish - Poet | March 6, 1909 - May 7, 1966
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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Telling lies does not work in advertising.
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Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
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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.
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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People find life entirely too time-consuming.
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