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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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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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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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Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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