Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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