They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhat does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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