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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

Czeslaw Milosz

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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Attribute Description Desire Eyes Himself See
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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End Expedition Myself Sweet Thinking
He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
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Demand Fear Himself Hope Precious Return See
The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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Circumstance Exceed Soul
What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Live Shadow Strength
Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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Children Memories Need Ourselves Save
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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Growth Small Truth Yourself
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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Communication Experience Impossible Knowledge People
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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Bone Flesh Myself Thinking
Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
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Distant Love Way Yourself
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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Children Trust Truth Wisdom
Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Glory Irony One Liner Slave
You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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Death Illusion Live People Thinking
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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Acceptance End Impossible Regret
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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Existence Myself River Suffering
Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Difference Fall Love

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

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