There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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