There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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 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’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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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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