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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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