Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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