Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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