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Wislawa Szymborska

"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."

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"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."

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"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
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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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"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."
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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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"Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy."
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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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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
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"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
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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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"All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look."
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