This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThis terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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 old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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