Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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