In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
CZESLAW MILOSZHe 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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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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Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.
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I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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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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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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