About Witold Gombrowicz: Witold Marian Gombrowicz is now considered one of the foremost figures of Polish literature. His diaries were published in 1969 and are, according to the Paris Review, "widely considered his masterpiece".
To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.