All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAExistentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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