When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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