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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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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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