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- "Possibilities"
- by Wisława Szymborska (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisława_Szymborska)
- I prefer movies.
- I prefer cats.
- I prefer the oaks along the Warta.
- I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.
- I prefer myself liking people to myself loving mankind.
- I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case.
- I prefer the colour green.
- I prefer not to maintain that reason is to blame for everything.
- I prefer exceptions.
- I prefer to leave early.
- I prefer talking to doctors about something else.
- I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.
- I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
- I prefer, where love's concerned, non-specific anniversaries that can be celebrated every day.
- I prefer moralists who promise me nothing.
- I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.
- I prefer the earth in civvies.
- I prefer conquered to conquering countries.
- I prefer having some reservations.
- I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
- I prefer Grimms' fairy tales to the newspapers' front pages.
- I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.
- I prefer dogs with un-cropped tails.
- I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.
- I prefer desk drawers.
- I prefer many things that I haven't mentioned here to many things I've also left unsaid.
- I prefer zeroes on the loose to those lined up behind a cipher.
- I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars.
- I prefer to knock on wood.
- I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.
- I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility that existence has its own reason for being.
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