The soul exceeds its circumstances.
CZESLAW MILOSZOur memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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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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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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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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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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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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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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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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He 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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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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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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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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