Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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