Stanisław Jerzy Lec
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1909 – 1966
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Who was Stanisław Jerzy Lec?
Stanisław Jerzy Lec was an important Polish poet and aphorist. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-WW2 Poland, he was one of the most influential aphorists on the 20th century, known for lyrical poetry and sceptical philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext.
Famous Quotes:
- Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
- No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- He who limps is still walking.
- Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
- Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
- Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
- When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
- The first requisite for immortality is death.
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