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

Wislawa Szymborska

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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
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
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
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
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
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
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Common Poet Publish Reading Understand
No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Feeling Good Morning Oneself
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
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
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Beginning Creativity Humanity Kind Life Love Man Myself Understand
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
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
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
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
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet

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