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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.
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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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