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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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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 don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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