No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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