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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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Fight Himself Imagination Myself Peace Quiet
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
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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Destroy Future Myself Past Silence Word
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Beginning Book Half Myself Open
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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