It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAfter every war someone has to tidy up.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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’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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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