Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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