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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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Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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