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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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