Thought

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Unkempt Thoughts (Myśli nieuczesane, 1957; Jacek Galazka, translator, 1962).

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