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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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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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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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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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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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I'm drowning in papers.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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