"I practice my soul in the sense of inexorable picky (...) world more and more like the Woolworth department store, where the Szostak is to be acquired, in a poor performance, everything that can satisfy - fast, cheap and flimsy genre - the universal dream of the crowd willing to enjoy about anything (...) Choose! Not grymasząc and turning his nose, but sternly and mercilessly. You can never be sufficiently fastidious in matters of morals and spirit. And you can never be sufficiently consistent, when you say: this is precious, and this is false, it is valuable, and are cheap. "As promised, Marai quote returns.
Sandor Marai," The Book of Herbs " The reader, Warsaw, 2006., P.78-79.
Different thoughts are stored in the "Book of Herbs", with some completely disagree. But just this in the abbreviated version could be recorded on the mirror: "select sternly and mercilessly."
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