No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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