W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.
Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one’s sides.
Don’t change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.
The world was indeed a kind of screen and did not manifest itself other than by passing me on and on – I was just the bouncing ball that objects played with!
Don’t be fooled by your own wisdom.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man’s soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.
I didn’t go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.