I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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