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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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