Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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 is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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