Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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