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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Wislawa Szymborska

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
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’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
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
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
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
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
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
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
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
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
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
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

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