We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences. - Wisława Szymborska

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We live longer
but less precisely
and in shorter sentences.

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About Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska-Włodek (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist and translator. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was bestowed the title of Lady of the Order of the White Eagle in 2011. She was a member of the Polish Writers Association (1989) and the Polish Academy of Skills (1995).

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Alternative Names: Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska Szymborska Wislawa Szymborska
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Czytanie książek to najpiękniejsza zabawa, jaką sobie ludzkość wymyśliła.

So what can they tell us, the writers of dream books,
the scholars of oneiric signs and omens,
the doctors with couches for analyses — if anything fits,
it’s accidental,
and for one reason only,
that in our dreamings,
in their shadowings and gleamings,
in their multiplings, inconceivablings,
in their haphazardings and widescatterings
at times even a clear-cut meaning
may slip through.

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Ningún día se repite,
ni dos noches son iguales,
ni dos besos parecidos
ni dos citas similares.

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