Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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 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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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