When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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