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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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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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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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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