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Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.”

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was a Polish poet, writer, and satirist. Known for his wit, humor, and profound insights, his works often explore human behavior and moral issues through satire and allegory. more

“Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”

Source: Why I Wake Early: New Poems

“The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.”

Life Universe Can Do

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”

Pieces Civilization

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.”

Thinking World Believe Ends Fire Greater Jokes Theatre Wit Broke Clown Applause Acclaim

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”

Ifs Passion Minutes Youth Poet Capable Heat Enterprise Carrie Heroic Princess Immense Mediocre Bourgeois Debris Libertine Rotary

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.”

Men Might Wise Victim Assassins

Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems

Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

“I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.”

Men Years America Speak Middle Car Moon Years Ago Fellows Old Man Not Afraid Prophecy Kansas Lonesome Lonesomeness

Author:Allen Ginsberg

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