Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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