They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAny knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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