Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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