It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAny knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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’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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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