I’m drowning in papers.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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’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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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