Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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Let 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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