Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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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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