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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More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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 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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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