Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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