I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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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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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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