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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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