Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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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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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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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