It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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