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I’m drowning in papers.

Wislawa Szymborska

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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
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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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
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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Destroy Future Myself Past Silence Word
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Beginning Book Half Myself Open
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
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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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Death Family Love Mythical
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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