Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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