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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Wislawa Szymborska

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
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
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
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
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
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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Breathe Darkness Dreams Music Need Rhythm Spark
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
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Beginning Creativity Humanity Kind Life Love Man Myself Understand
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
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
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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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Fortune Inspirational Place Poet Select

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