There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThe joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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