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“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

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“Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up!”
― Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line

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“И дышит он как-то идиотически: вначале у него выдох, а потом вдох, тогда как у всех людей наоборот: сначала вдох, а уж потом выдох.”
― Венедикт Ерофеев, Москва Петушки

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“Wielka Poezja będąc wielką i będąc poezją nie może nie zachwycać nas, a więc zachwyca!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

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“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

tags: coincidence, humor, insightful

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