guangchuans: soracities: Wisława Szymborska, from “Our Century’s Decline”, View wi
guangchuans: soracities: Wisława Szymborska, from “Our Century’s Decline”, View with a Grain of Sand (trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh) [ID: Black text on white background reads:Anyone who planned to enjoy the worldis now facedwith a hopeless task.Stupidity isn’t funny.Wisdom isn’t gay.Hopeisn’t that young girl anymore,et cetera, alas. God was finally going to believein a man both good and strong,but good and strongare still two different men.“How should we live?” someone asked me in a letter.I had meant to ask himthe same question. /end ID.] -- source link