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“Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.”

Wislawa Szymborska · Poetry

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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

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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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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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