Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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