What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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’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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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