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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."

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"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."

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"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."

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"Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry."

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"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."

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"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."

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"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."

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"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."

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