It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAYou can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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