Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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