Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
CZESLAW MILOSZIf I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don’t know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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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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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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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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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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