Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMemory at last has what I sought.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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