Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThis terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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’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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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’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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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