I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
CZESLAW MILOSZA true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.
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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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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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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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