Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
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I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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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 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 living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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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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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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