The true enemy of man is generalization.
CZESLAW MILOSZYet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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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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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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I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
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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.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
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Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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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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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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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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Forget 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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I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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