It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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