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“Prawda jest córą czasu poczętą w przypadkowym i krótkotrwałym romansie ze zbiegiem okoliczności.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lux perpetua

“„– Będę czujny – westchnął. – Ale nie sądzę, żeby twój wytrawny gracz był w stanie mnie zaskoczyć. Nie po tym, co ja tu przeszedłem. Rzucili się na mnie szpiedzy, opadły wymierające gady i gronostaje. Nakarmiono mnie nie istniejącym kawiorem. Nie gustujące w mężczyznach nimfomanki podawały w wątpliwość moją męskość, groziły gwałtem na jeżu, straszyły ciążą, ba, nawet orgazmem, i to takim, któremu nie towarzyszą rytualne ruchy. Brrr...
- Piłeś?”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Czas pogardy

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
"I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Błogosławiony ten, co nie mając nic do powiedzenia, nie obleka tego faktu w słowa.”
― Julian Tuwim

“There are two kinds of blood, the blood that flows in the veins and the blood that flows out of them.
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― Julian Tuwim

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Go to hell, I'm reading!”
― Archie Goodwin

“Duchowi memu dała w pysk i poszła.”
― Juliusz Słowacki

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“To nie jest postać, to posiedzieć.”
― Stefan Kisielewski

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
― Mark Twain

“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
― Dean Koontz

“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Rzecz prosta, im mądrzejszy czytelnik, tym i książka okaże się mądrzejsza; im zaś czytelnik głupszy i bardziej jałowy, tym i książka będzie głupsza.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Bacacay

“Don't be fooled by your own wisdom”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“- (…) Jak Niemcowi powiesz “zakazane”, to znaczy “zakazane”. Jak Ruskiemu to powiesz - to samo. Spróbuj powiedzieć to Polakowi. “Zakazane” to są dla niego od razu trzy możliwości: częściowo zakazane i trzeba ściemniać, zakazane, ale nie do końca, tak jakby zakazane i niezakazane jednocześnie. I najprostsza możliwość. Zakazane? Aha, to znaczy nikt nic nie wie i rób, co chcesz.
- Jezu Chryste, nigdy nie zrozumiem tego narodu. Jak wyście przetrwali tyle wieków?
- Właśnie dzięki temu.”
― Andrzej Ziemiański, Ucieczka z Festung Breslau

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Great indeed is our need to love ”
― julia Hartwig

“If there is a secular equivalent of standing in a great spired Cathedral with marble pillars and streams of mystic light slanting through two-tier Gothic windows, it would be watching children in their little bedrooms fast asleep. Girls especially.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for
a walk.”
― Raymond I. OD Myers

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.”
― Gilda Radner

“I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

“Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.”
― Chili Davis

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”
― E. V. Lucas

“There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Crocodile Tears

“Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by his other arm and began thumping him over the head with the loose limb. I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.”
― Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave