Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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