And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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