Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Polish artist, dramatist and novelist (1885–1939)

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Quotes

“And could God, if he wanted to, create another God, the same - after all, he is omnipotent. Then he wouldn't be bored.”
“And yet it is good, everything is good. What? – maybe not? It's fine, damn it, and whoever says no, I'll punch him in the face!”
“I hate her for having to love her so much.”
“There is nothing great and beautiful except death.”
“What would he give to be able to be, with a clear conscience, a homosexual, an artist, a cocaine addict - in general, an "ist", it doesn't matter what type - he even envied sportsmen's sports mania. And he was just a complicated metaphysical masochist.”
“Washing the entire skin with soap every day is the duty of everyone who wants to consider themselves human.”

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ( Polish: [staˈɲiswaf iɡˈnatsɨ vʲitˈkʲɛvʲitʂ]; 24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period.

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