Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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