I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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