Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAKeep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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