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After every war someone has to tidy up.

Wislawa Szymborska

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
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
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
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
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
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
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
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
No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Bliss Kiss Past Teaching Time Way
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
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animal Cat Death Yourself

After every war someone has to tidy up.

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