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

Wislawa Szymborska

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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
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
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
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
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
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 the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
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
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
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
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
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
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual

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