I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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