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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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