I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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’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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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