We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
CZESLAW MILOSZ
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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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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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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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.
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Language is the only homeland.
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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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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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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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