Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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