It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKALoveless 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.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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