Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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