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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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