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There's simply too much fuss about myself.

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
Szymborska
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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'm drowning in papers.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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