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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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