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.
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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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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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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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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