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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.

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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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