Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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