Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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