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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Wislawa Szymborska

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Hard Myself Oneself Sentence
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Common Poet Publish Reading Understand
They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Creature Myself Simplicity Son
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
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
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
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
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
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
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

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