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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.


Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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STANISLAW JERZY LEC Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Value your words. Each one may be the last.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Telling lies does not work in advertising.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i...
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The first requisite for immortality is death.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Oare omul a ieşit mai repede din cuvânt decât din peşteră?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him
STANISLAW JERZY LEC A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pou...
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When everything has to be right, something isn't.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unkown poet.'
STANISLAW JERZY LEC If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You have to decide, even to hesitate
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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and...
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW LEC Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
STANISLAW LEC People find life entirely too time-consuming.
STANISLAW LEC The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
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STANISLAW LEC No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
STANISLAW LEC When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
STANISLAW LEC The first requisite for immortality is death.
STANISLAW LEC Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
STANISLAW LEC There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
STANISLAW LEC The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
STANISLAW LEC He who limps is still walking.
STANISLAW LEC The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.
STANISLAW LEC Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
STANISLAW LEC Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply can...
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in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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STANISLAW JERZY LEC You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You have to decide, even to hesitate
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW LEC Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
STANISLAW LEC People find life entirely too time-consuming.
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STANISłAW JERZY LEC Den Blick in die Welt kann man mit einer Zeitung versperren.
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