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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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