All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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