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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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 old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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