It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
- Czeslaw Milosz
People, Communicate, Total, Rationalism
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
- Czeslaw Milosz
Heat, Feet, Here, Glorify
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
- Czeslaw Milosz
Lie, Small, Repose, Grain
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 Milosz
Changes, Like, Considered, Passive
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