Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait. The exit is usually where the entrance was. He who limps is still walking. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones. Even a glass eye can see its blindness. To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply? I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world. Is it a progress if a cannibal is using knife and fork? If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often. Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. The first condition of immortality is death. Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell? When smashing monuments, save the pedestals—they always come in handy.