All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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 cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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