Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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