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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.

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
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
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
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 boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
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
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
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself

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