Irony is the glory of slaves.
CZESLAW MILOSZOur memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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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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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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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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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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Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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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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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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