Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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