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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Wislawa Szymborska

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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
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
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
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
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
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
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
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
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
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search

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