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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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Essayist
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Poet
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Kornik
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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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