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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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