Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Wislawa Szymborska

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• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

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• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

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• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

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• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

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• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

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• I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

  

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• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

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• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  

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• I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

  

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• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

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• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

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• I like heels and make-up.

  

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• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

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• The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you're getting them to do - getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, 'Have you given up on this project?'

  

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• True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.

  

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• Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Thinking
  • Distance