Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEvery beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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