Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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