I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I 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.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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