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What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

Czeslaw Milosz

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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End Expedition Myself Sweet Thinking
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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Belief Death People True
Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Earth Forever Season Young
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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Divide Poetry Yourself
You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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Failure Myself Reach Try
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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Book. Philosophy Country Fate Influence Realization Time
Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?
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Fear Listening Night Wake Up Yourself
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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Break Death Kind Life Moments Partition Separate Vision
Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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Echo Mountain Poetry
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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General Oneself Poetry Purpose Reminder
And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
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Beyond Death Essence Forest Heaven Rise Run Sun Wait
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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Live Speak Story Talk Tribute
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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Distant Love Way Yourself
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Catch Hold Illusion Man
All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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End High Independent Ourselves Wisdom
What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Live Shadow Strength

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

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