They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAExistentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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