There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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