No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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