I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAYou can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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