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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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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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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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