Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKACarry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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