Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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