"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."

-- Wislawa Szymborska

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“I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.”
“Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.”
“Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.”
“Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.”
“I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.”
“Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.”

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“We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.”
“. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out for tomorrow, it is-beyond being a duty-also fear. Every morning when I get up I can read the Auschwitz number on my forearm, something that touches the deepest and most closely intertwined roots of my existence; indeed I am not even sure if this is not my entire existence. Then I feel approximately as I did back then when I got a taste of the first blow from a policeman's fist. Every day anew I lose my trust in the world.”

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