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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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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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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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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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