No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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