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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
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
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Myself Poem Quick Reading Time Work Writing
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
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
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
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’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
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
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time

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