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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGenerally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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