All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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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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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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