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.
CZESLAW MILOSZOur memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than 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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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don’t know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.
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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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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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