Stanisław Jerzy Dołżyk

Poetry

People

draft MT — needs author review

Aphorisms and thoughts, not necessarily golden, about people:

Faithfulness is a form of captivity, entered into of one’s own free will.

09-02-2009

Over the years, the cyclical rhythm of days and nights lulls us into a trance of passing time; only later, when our inner clock starts to falter, do we wake up surprised and disappointed that our life has slipped away somewhere.

09-02-2009

You can disagree with many people on many things — but never with yourself.

13-02-2009

A lemon differs from a person in that it has one clear, definite taste.

18-02-2009

That’s just how it is — we’re often guilty thanks to others.

18-02-2009

To be strong, you need to find strength in someone.

18-02-2009

Being a boor has its advantages — you get to notice all the various nastiness and lies so carefully tended and hidden by the law-abiding.

30-04-2007

Where two people fight, at least one of them is wrong.

30-04-2007

Whoever doesn’t hold themselves accountable, holds no one else accountable either.

20-06-2007

We aren’t always who we see ourselves to be.

07-01-2009

You don’t know who you are? Ask others — everyone will tell you something different about yourself, just as each of them is different from the others.

07-01-2009

A fool lectures another to do something clever — a wise man lectures another not to do anything foolish.

07-01-2009

So many times we see ourselves in the mirror and are always surprised that we look this way — though really, how are we supposed to look?!

07-01-2009

I’d compare a clash of characters to a clock in which each hand moves at its own pace — and sometimes even in different directions.

13-03-2009