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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGod was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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