I’m drowning in papers.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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