A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe soul exceeds its circumstances.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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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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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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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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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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