Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASuch certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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