Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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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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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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