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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKALet 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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