Quote by Wislawa Szymborska
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I b

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom. – Wislawa Szymborska

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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

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Any knowledge that doesnt lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. – Wislawa Szymborska

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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. – F. H. Bradley

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. – Woodrow Wilson

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Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot

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