Memory at last has what I sought.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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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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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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