Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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 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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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