Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa Szymborska
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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.
- All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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- Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
- I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.