All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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