All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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 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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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