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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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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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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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