One/Change » Seth http://one-change.com making one change at a time Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:01:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 In Praise of Self-Deprecation – Wislawa Szymborska http://one-change.com/2009/03/in-praise-of-self-deprecation-wislawa-szymborska/ http://one-change.com/2009/03/in-praise-of-self-deprecation-wislawa-szymborska/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:06:09 +0000 Seth http://one-change.com/blog/?p=562 In Praise of Self-Deprecation

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The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.

Scruples are alien to the black panther.

Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.

The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.

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The self-critical jackal does not exist.

The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly

live as they live and are glad of it.

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The killer whale’s heart weighs one hundred kilos

but in other respects it is light.

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There is nothing more animal-like

than a clear conscience

on the third planet of the Sun.

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- Wislawa Szymborska

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