What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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 imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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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.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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