Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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