There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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