Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I’m drowning in papers.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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