Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGenerally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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