Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomewhere out there the world must have an end.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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 is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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