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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Kornik
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
Szymborska
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Chaos
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Order
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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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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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 am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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