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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

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
Szymborska
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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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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Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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 am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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