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

Wislawa Szymborska

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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
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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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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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