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.
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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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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