Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Language is the only homeland.
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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
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From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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