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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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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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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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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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