This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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