Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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