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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wislawa Szymborska

It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People 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
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
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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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
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
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’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
I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Dog Edition Myself Old Revision Work World
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
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

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