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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.

Wislawa Szymborska

It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Choice Demand Loss Myself Rejection Way
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
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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Destroy Future Myself Past Silence Word
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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Breathe Darkness Dreams Music Need Rhythm Spark
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
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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Arrival Consequence Fact Practice
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Operate Poet Spirit Talent
Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Disappear Start Stay Stubborn Time
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Hard Myself Oneself Sentence
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Live Myself Poet Start

And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.

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