I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m drowning in papers.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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