Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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