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Zbigniew Herbert

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    Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

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    Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

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    forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

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    I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

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    Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.

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    I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

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    I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

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    No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

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    Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

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    The dead have need of fairy tales too.

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    poza tym jak zwykle handel i kopulacja

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    Thus I am in Holland, the kingdom of things, great principality of objects. In Dutch, schoen means beautiful and at the same time clean, as if neatness was raised to the dignity of a virtue.

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    Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality.

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    You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... but about what is beyond all painting, all art.