Who is stanislaw lec

He has also spent two years in Israel. After disagreeing with the Communist government he defected to Israel with his wife, son and daughter, but returned to Poland after two years in Israel. The Polish authorities punished him by taking away any rights to write or publish. He was, however, allowed to publish again in the late s. He gained a massive popularity and despite his anti-Communist and anti-Totalitarian aphorisms he was given an official state funeral in Warsaw when he died in According to Clifton Fadiman's introduction to Lec's book Uncombed Thoughts Mysli nieuczesane : "Lec has led the strange to us , hunted, haunted life of thousands of Central European intellectuals, their experience inexorably shaped by war and revolution.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood. In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. The first condition of immortality is death. He had a clear conscience.

Never used it. Never lie when the truth is more profitable. Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. Everyone wants your good, take care they could also steal it.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. When smashing monuments, save the pedestals — they always come in handy. Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Because then he will be no longer without guilt. The Polish authorities punished him by taking away any rights to write or publish. He was, however, allowed to publish again in the late s. He gained a massive popularity and despite his anti-Communist and anti-Totalitarian aphorisms he was given an official state funeral in Warsaw when he died in I am also against using it as a reward.

Therefore wash them often. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. And what, then, will you do in the next cell? In he began publishing lyrical verse in Polish dailies and thereafter contributed to satirical weeklies and to the Tryby… … Encyclopedia of Judaism.

Form eines verbreiteten slawischen Vornamens.