I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIn every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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