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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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