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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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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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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
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