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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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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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