There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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