It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhat does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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