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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

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
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
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
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Angel Count Head Myself Sleep
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 don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Death Family Love Mythical
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
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
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Hands Joy Mortal Perseverance Power Revenge Writing

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