Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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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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