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Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?
— Wislawa Szymborska
Tags: stand, someone, down, nothing

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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Tags: try, speech, words, light
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Tags: only, good-work, good, work
After every war someone has to tidy up.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Tags: every, up, someone, war
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Tags: know, world, people, age
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Tags: every, just, tragedy, comedy
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