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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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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