Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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