I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAt 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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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