You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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