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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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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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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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I'm drowning in papers.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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