Wladyslaw Szpilman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.
-- Wladyslaw Szpilman

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Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.
-- Wladyslaw Szpilman

#Evil #Holocaust #Humanity

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Wladyslaw Szpilman famous quotes

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