Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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