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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

Wislawa Szymborska

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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 hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
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
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
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
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Angel Count Head Myself Sleep
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
It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
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
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
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

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