Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhen 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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And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
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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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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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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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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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
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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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