I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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