I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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