Language is the only homeland.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhen I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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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 voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?
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Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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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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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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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 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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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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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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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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