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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.

Wislawa Szymborska

After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
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
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 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
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
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 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
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
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
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Arrival Consequence Fact Practice
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
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
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
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person

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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