I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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