Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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