There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASecret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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