All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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