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1. "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." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
2. "Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
3. "All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
4. "I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
5. "It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
6. "Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
7. "In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
8. "Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
9. "All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
10. "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." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
11. "After every war someone has to tidy up." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
12. "All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
13. "You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
14. "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." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
15. "Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
16. "Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
17. "Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
18. "I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
19. "I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
20. "I started earning a living as a poet rather early on." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
21. "I'm drowning in papers." ~ Wislawa Szymborska
22. "I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words." ~ Wislawa Szymborska

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No woman would come up with a plan like this, much less be able to execute it.""I'm depending on that kind of thinking. Everyone will imagine you mad when you say a woman took you—if you even dare to admit it." She inclined her head to him in mocking homage."Women don't have the ability to sustain a thought long enough to put such a plan in motion.""Actually you're right." She grinned, not at all offended. "It took two women."
Author: Christina Dodd

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