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1. "When it comes, you'll be dreamingthat you don't need to breathe;that breathless silence isthe music of the darkand it's part of the rhythmto vanish like a spark." ~ Wisława Szymborska
2. "The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.Scruples are alien to the black panther.Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.The self-critical jackal does not exist.The locust, alligator, trichina, horseflylive as they live and are glad of it.The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun." ~ Wisława Szymborska
3. "No one feels good at four in the morning.If ants feel good at four in the morning—three cheers for the ants." ~ Wisława Szymborska
4. "The joy of writing.The power of preserving.Revenge of a mortal hand." ~ Wisława Szymborska
5. "The world, whatever we might think about it terrified by its vastness and by our helplessness in the face of it, embittered by its indifference to individual suffering—of people, animals, and perhaps also plants, for how can we be sure that plants are free of suffering; whatever we might think about its spaces pierced by the radiation of stars, stars around which we now have begun to discover planets, already dead? still dead?—we don't know; whatever we might think about this immense theater, to which we may have a ticket, but it is valid for a ridiculously brief time, limited by two decisive dates; whatever else we might think about this world—it is amazing." ~ Wisława Szymborska
6. "La vida dura unos cuantos rasguños en la arena" ~ Wisława Szymborska
7. "I am telling himwhat he wants to hear: antsdying of love underthe constellation of the dandelion.I swear that a white rose,sprinkled with wine, sings.I am laughing, tiltingmy head carefullyas if checking an invention.I am dancing, dancingin astonished skin, inan embrace that creates me." ~ Wisława Szymborska
8. "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." ~ Wisława Szymborska
9. "When I pronounce the word Future,the first syllable already belongs to the past.When I pronounce the word Silence,I destroy it." ~ Wisława Szymborska
10. "I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised." ~ Wisława Szymborska
11. "The Three Oddest WordsWhen I pronounce the word Future,the first syllable already belongs to the past.When I pronounce the word Silence,I destroy it.When I pronounce the word nothing,I make something no nonbeing can hold." ~ Wisława Szymborska
12. "Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle." ~ Wisława Szymborska
13. "Somewhere out there the world must have an end." ~ Wisława Szymborska
14. "Dying - you can't do that to a cat." ~ Wisława Szymborska
15. "No day copies yesterday,no two nights will teach what bliss isin precisely the same way,with precisely the same kisses." ~ Wisława Szymborska
16. "I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems." ~ Wisława Szymborska
17. "I am who I am.A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other." ~ Wisława Szymborska
18. "But they know about us, they know,the four corners, and the chairs nearby us.Discerning shadows also know,and even the table keeps quiet." ~ Wisława Szymborska
19. "Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still" ~ Wisława Szymborska

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