Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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