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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.

Wislawa Szymborska

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
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
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
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
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
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
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Believe Different God Goodness Man Strong
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
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
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
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

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