Marek Hłasko

“But I wonder why I was wandering around like that. Instead of celebrating love, instead of gushing about it, I was so nervous because I thought that I would just make it, that I would always be young, that Marek would always be young, that the world would wait for us. And nothing waited and the world was rushing at a dizzying pace.”

“When someone starts stomping on your toes for the first time, you think it's not true, and then you're surprised that a person can do such a thing to another person. But you don't really have time to think about it, because they are urinating on your face and you again think that it's not true, that this man straddled over you has the same heart, kidneys and the same shame.”

“Thank God I'm just alcoholic. This is the only thing that gives any guarantee; If anyone thinks anything of me, it's only this.”

“And that's why they probably invented marriage and the oath of fidelity, because they knew that nothing in the world fits together as badly as a man and a woman.”

“Are you playing dad and mom? Enjoy!”

“On Saturday, the city center looks the same as on any other day of the week. There are just more drunk people; in pubs and bars, buses and gates - the smell of digested alcohol hangs everywhere. On Saturday, the city loses its hard-working face - on Saturday, the city has a drunken face.”

“They lay tired of love and heat, they were both young and pretty.”

“I don't trust anyone who has a pussy and knows the value of money.”

“I want you to live. Think of her, Mike. Think of her, Mike. Think about her cunt; think about her mouth and breasts, Mike. It's not true what she told you. She was always fine with you, Mike. Mike, you know me and you know I don't lie. Mike, you have to believe me again. Mike, do you remember how wet she is every time you enter her? And how does her belly tighten? Mike, why don't you believe me? But there was no one left to believe him; He kicked his legs apart and kicked him in the crotch until he had no strength left.”

“The life I've been given is just a story; but how I tell it is my business.”

“The world is divided into two halves, but in one of them it is unlivable, in the other it is unbearable.”

“To this day I'm not sure if there's any difference between physics and algebra and math and chemistry, and I'll never know. I don't know if forty-nine can even be divided by any number; If by some miracle it succeeds, it won't be for me.”

“I myself have made love only once in my life; that was eleven years ago, and after that I didn't love anyone for a minute, even though I constantly tried to create illusions for myself.”