Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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When 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.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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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 slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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