I’m drowning in papers.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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