No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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