Stanisław Jerzy Lec (born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz)

is credited with the marvellous injunction:
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE END OF THE WORLD !

Sculpture by Isamu Krieger

Here are some of Lec's lesser apophthegms:

• The exit is usually where the entrance was.
• He who limps is still walking.
• In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
• I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
• Is it progress if a cannibal learns to use a knife and fork ?
• Suppose you succeed in breaking down the wall with your head.
  What, then, will you do in the next cell?

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