Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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