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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
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
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
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
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Action Demand Myself Poor Preparation Reality
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
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
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
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time

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