Wisława Szymborska - Life Quotes

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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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There's no life
that couldn't be immortal
if only for a moment. Death
always arrives by that very moment too late. In vain it tugs at the knob
of the invisible door.
As far as you've come can't be undone.

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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan.
I'm drowning in debts up to my ears.
I'll have to pay for myself
with my self,
give up my life for my life.

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Few of them made it to thirty.
Old age was the privilege of rocks and trees.
Childhood ended as fast as wolf cubs grow.
One had to hurry, to get on with life
before the sun went down,
before the first snow.

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