“To be understood is to prostitute oneself”

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”

“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.”

“A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts, and the knowledge of truth is false in its very truth. The leaves' greenness is worth more, for a right understanding, than a great thought, for the leaves, greenness is something you can show others, but you can never show them a great thought. We are born without knowing how to talk and we die without having known how to express ourselves. Our life runs its course between the silence of one who cannot speak and the silence of one who wasn't understood, and around it hovers — like a bee where there are no flowers — a useless, inscrutable destiny.”

“At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.”

“Jutro ja również zniknę z ulicy Srebrnej, z ulicy Złotników, z ulicy Płócienników. Jutro ja również - dusza, która czuje i myśli, świat, którym jestem dla siebie - tak, jutro ja również będę tym, co przestał przemierzać te ulice, tym, którego przelotnie będę wspominać słowami "co się z nim stało?". I wszystko, co czuję, nie będzie niczym więcej jak tylko brakiem jednego przechodnia w codziennym życiu jakiegoś tam miasta.”

“Para realizar um sonho é preciso esquecê-lo, distrair dele a atenção. Por isso realizar é não realizar.”