There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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