They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAfter every war someone has to tidy up.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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