Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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