Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?
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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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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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