No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKADying – you can’t do that to a cat.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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