After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKACarry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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