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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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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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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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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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