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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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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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