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

Wislawa Szymborska

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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Action Demand Myself Poor Preparation Reality
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Galaxy Goodness Work
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
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
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
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
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
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
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
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
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Choice Demand Loss Myself Rejection Way
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
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance

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