If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
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I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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