I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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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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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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