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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhat does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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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’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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