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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.
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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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
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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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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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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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