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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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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
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Chaos

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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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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
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I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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I'm drowning in papers.
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I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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