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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Agreement Best Common Imagination Reality Regard
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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Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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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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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Dog Edition Myself Old Revision Work World
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time

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