“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.”

— Wisława Szymborska

"Nothing's a Gift"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)

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Polish writer 1923–2012

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