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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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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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 fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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