I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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