No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIs a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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’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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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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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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