I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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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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