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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAfter every war someone has to tidy up.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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