All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
CZESLAW MILOSZYou see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.
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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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