I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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.
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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.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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