All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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