Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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 slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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