After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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