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Stanislaw Lec Quotes
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Poet Quotes
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Date of Birth:
March 6, 1909
Date of Death:
May 7, 1996
Nationality:
Polish
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Stanislaw Lec

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

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

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

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Stanislaw Lec

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Lec

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw Lec

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Stanislaw Lec

Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Stanislaw Lec

The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw Lec

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

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

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

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

Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Lec

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

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

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

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

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

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