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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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