Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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