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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Wislawa Szymborska

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Finding Live Love People True
Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Disappear Start Stay Stubborn Time
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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Angel Count Head Myself Sleep
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Hands Joy Mortal Perseverance Power Revenge Writing
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Fight Himself Imagination Myself Peace Quiet
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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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
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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Creature Myself Simplicity Son
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
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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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
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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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
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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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

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