Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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