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

Wislawa Szymborska

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
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
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
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
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
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Beginning Book Half Myself Open
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
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Arrival Consequence Fact Practice
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective

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

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