Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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 the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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