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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomething doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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 one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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We’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.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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