I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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