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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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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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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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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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