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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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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 imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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I'm drowning in papers.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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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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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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