Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKALet 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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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At 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 don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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