I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen 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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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