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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.

— Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Farewell to Autumn (1927)

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Washing the entire skin with soap every day is the duty of everyone who wants to consider themselves human.

There is nothing great and beautiful except death.

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I hate her for having to love her so much.

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Other than that, everything is shit – everything except philosophy, that is. Without her, I'd be just a piece of shit.

And life could be so beautiful, so terribly cool: Kaśka and I, after a whole day of inhuman work, would have a big beer!

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