What has no shadow has no strength to live.
CZESLAW MILOSZDo 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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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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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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