Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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