Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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