"Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn."

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Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.82, Yale University Press

Witold Gombrowicz

#Wise Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
“Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.”
“Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.”
“What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know”
“Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.”
“Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.78
“The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual material of what I have in mind, as well as a color spectrum of mood boards.”
“Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.”

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