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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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’m drowning in papers.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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