Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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