This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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