I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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