Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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