And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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