There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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 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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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