No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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