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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Wislawa Szymborska

I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
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
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
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
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’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
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
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
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
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
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
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
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
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

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