There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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