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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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