Rik Peeters

“When talking to a Communist, don't you have the impression that you are speaking to a "beleiver"? For a Communist, too, everything is taken care of, at least in the current phase of the dialectical process. He is in possission of the truth he knows. And, what is more, he believes, and what is still more, he wants to believe. Even if you could prove otherwise to him, he will not be convinced, because he has given himself up to the Party. The Party knows better, the Party knows for him.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary

“Dat idee van de Dag des Oordeels, wanneer alle opgestapelde schulden volledig afgelost zullen zijn en een ontwrichte wereld eindelijk in het lood is gebracht, is later in geseculariseerde vorm overgenomen door het moderne linkse project. De instantie van het oordeel is dan echter niet meer God, maar het volk. Linkse politieke bewegingen zijn te vergelijken met 'woedebanken'. Ze verzamelen woedeinvesteringen en beloven grootschalige wraak, het herstel van een allesomvattende gerechtigheid.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

“The artist, according to Freud, is a neurotic who treats himself, I guess because no one else can.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary

“Ah! I knew the masculinity that they, men, fabricated among themselves, goading eachother into it, mutually forcing themselves to it in a panic-stricken fear at the woman in themselves. I knew men straining to attain Masculinity, convlsed males, giving each other lessons in manliness. This type of manartificially magnified his traits: he exaggerated this heaviness, brutality, strength, and seriousness, and in it was he who raped, conguered by force. He was affraid, thereforece, of beauty and grace, which are the weapons of weakness, he lost himself in male monstrosity and was becoming licentious and trivial or dull and clumsy.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary