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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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
Szymborska
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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.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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