I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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