"Get to know other worlds, if only for……" — Wislawa Szymborska
"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."
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63 Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska has 63 quotes on this site.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the…
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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There's simply too much fuss about myself,
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is…
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not…
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in…
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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More Comparison Quotes
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who…
— Erykah Badu
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale…
— Bob Barr
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
— Brendan Behan
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
— Annie Besant
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For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
— Tom Bodett
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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