What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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