My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAExistentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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