Memory at last has what I sought.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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