Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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 one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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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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