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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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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'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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