Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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