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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.

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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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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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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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