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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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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