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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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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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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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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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