I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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 one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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