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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGet to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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