They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnimals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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