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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.

Wislawa Szymborska

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
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animal Cat Death Yourself
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
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
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
Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Disappear Start Stay Stubborn Time
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
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
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Fortune Inspirational Place Poet Select
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
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
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time

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