Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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