I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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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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