Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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