It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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