Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
CZESLAW MILOSZForget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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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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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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