If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
CZESLAW MILOSZWe have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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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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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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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 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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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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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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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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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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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Language is the only homeland.
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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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