I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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