I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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