Human Miseries Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

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• Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
• Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to…
• Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.
• Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
• Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
• Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
• There's simply too much fuss about myself,
• Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical…
• Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be…
• Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work…
• In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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