Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
 

rebirth

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2009-06-10 08:47

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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No Second Act

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2008-11-22 09:07

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Wislawa Szymborska
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Righteous Anger

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2010-03-31 19:05

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle
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No Second Act

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2008-11-22 09:07

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Wislawa Szymborska
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The Joy of Writing

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2010-02-26 11:31

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wislawa Szymborska

Literature from Around The World, Prentice Hall

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Lycanthrope

Submitted by scotese on Sun, 2010-01-17 14:53

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Desiderius Erasmus
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The Joy of Writing

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2010-02-26 11:31

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wislawa Szymborska

Literature from Around The World, Prentice Hall

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The need to rationalize

Submitted by scotese on Thu, 2009-01-22 15:43

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Leo Tolstoy
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Only One

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2008-12-17 12:42

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

Jean Renoir
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Unique

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2010-09-25 08:36

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

Greville
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