I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAny 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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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