No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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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