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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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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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