I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASecret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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