Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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