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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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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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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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