When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWe’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.
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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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