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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.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Kornik
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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