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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Wislawa Szymborska

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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
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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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Agreement Best Common Imagination Reality Regard
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Feeling Good Morning Oneself
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.
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Angel Count Head Myself Sleep
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Choice Demand Loss Myself Rejection Way

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