Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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