Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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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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