Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKALet 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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