Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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