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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven the worst book can give us something to think about.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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