There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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