Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKATheir faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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