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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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