God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAOut of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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