Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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