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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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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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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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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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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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