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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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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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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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