Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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