Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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’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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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