Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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