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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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Continuous
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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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.
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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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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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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 have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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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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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