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
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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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