The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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