Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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We’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.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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