After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo 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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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 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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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