Stanisław Lem Quote

Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.


"Gruppenführer Louis XVI", in A Perfect Vacuum (1971), tr. Michael Kandel (1978)


Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a...

Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a...

Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a...

Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a...