I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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