No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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