All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIs a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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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.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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