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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

Wislawa Szymborska

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Arrival Consequence Fact Practice
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Bliss Kiss Past Teaching Time Way
Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Disappear Start Stay Stubborn Time
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Destroy Future Myself Past Silence Word
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Beginning Book Half Myself Open
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Fortune Inspirational Place Poet Select
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Myself Poem Quick Reading Time Work Writing
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference

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