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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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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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