No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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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’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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