Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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