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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Kornik
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
Szymborska
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Never
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Faith
People
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True
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Thing
Easier

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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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.
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