"It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself."

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Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wislawa Szymborska

“A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you”
“A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.”

Source : Annie Besant (2016). “Esoteric Christianity”, p.92, BookRix
“You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.”
“Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.”
“France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.”
“I write songs by sitting around in bars, so drinking songs are a little obvious. It's surprising that I don't write entirely drinking songs, since I am, in fact, drinking while writing the song. Drinking and love are the two principal sources of pleasure outside of music. There's only so many sources of pleasure, really. That's about it. Well, there are other arts as well. But none of them are as pleasurable as music, on a physical level.”
“Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.”
“The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.”

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