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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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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