I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhat does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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