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 SZYMBORSKAEven boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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