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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Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that theres no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Faith
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Overheard at a gravesite: “And they all said ‘I’m sorry for your loss,’ as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman

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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. – S. J. Perelman

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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy. – Alfred E. Smith

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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. – Herman Melville

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