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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind 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
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
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
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Hard Myself Oneself Sentence
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Fight Himself Imagination Myself Peace Quiet
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Agreement Best Common Imagination Reality Regard
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Cosmos Finding Inspirational Nature Object Remark Yourself
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
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
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

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