There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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