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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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