There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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