Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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