Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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