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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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