(1904–1969)
Polish novelist and dramatist“For knowledge, whatever it is worth, from the most precise mathematics to the darkest suggestions of art, is not to calm the soul but to create a state of vibration and tension in it.”
more infosource: Diary: 1953-56 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988), 100.
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category: art, knowledge, mathematics, tension, vibration
medium: Diary
notes: via Superfluidity
Witold Gombrowicz