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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

Wislawa Szymborska

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I’m drowning in papers.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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