Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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