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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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