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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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