And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomewhere out there the world must have an end.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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