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

Wislawa Szymborska

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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Fight Himself Imagination Myself Peace Quiet
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
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Myself Poem Quick Reading Time Work Writing
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
Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
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
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
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
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
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
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
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
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
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
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
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
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World

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