I’m drowning in papers.
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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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