God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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