Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAt 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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