"I am a collection of the family's body parts."

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Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.213, Yale University Press

Witold Gombrowicz

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“Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.”
“If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.”

Source : Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.38, Image
“I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.”
“The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings”
“There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
“The Christian is an idol breaker.”
“I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.”

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