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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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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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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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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 old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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