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You have to have great tact,
To finish the third act.
It's not an illusion - it's a fact.

— Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz The Shoemakers (1931)

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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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