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And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
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 cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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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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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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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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