No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGenerally 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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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