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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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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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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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