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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Wislawa Szymborska

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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Believe Different God Goodness Man Strong
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Fight Himself Imagination Myself Peace Quiet
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
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
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
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
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
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
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
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
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
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Cosmos Finding Inspirational Nature Object Remark Yourself
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Destroy Future Myself Past Silence Word
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
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
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Creature Myself Simplicity Son
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World

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