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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
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
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
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
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Cosmos Finding Inspirational Nature Object Remark Yourself
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
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
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
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’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
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

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