It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
CZESLAW MILOSZNot 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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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.
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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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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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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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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
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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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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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