Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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