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 SZYMBORSKAYou can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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