After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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