Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWe’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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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