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

Wislawa Szymborska

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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
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
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
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
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Finding Live Love People True
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
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
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
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
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

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