Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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