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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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