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.
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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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