When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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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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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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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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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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