Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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