Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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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 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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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in 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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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
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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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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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