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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Kornik
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
Szymborska
Good
Twinkling
Galaxy
Tiny
Keep
Work

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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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 slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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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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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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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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