Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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’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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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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