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 SZYMBORSKAI 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Let 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.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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