Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASecret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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