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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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