Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKALife lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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