I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGod was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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