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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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 boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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