God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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