Love Quotes by Czeslaw Milosz

6 Love quotes by Czeslaw Milosz

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“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the…

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The soul exceeds its circumstances.

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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

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Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers! You are milk and honey and love and death and dance. From a…

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“Tomber amoureux. To fall in love. Does it occur suddenly or gradually? If gradually, when is the moment “already”? I would fall…

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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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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

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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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“And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts under a tree in autumn, And, touched, coddled, began to live In spite of fires on the horizon, castles blown up, Tribes on the march, planets in motion. “We are,” they said, even as their pages…

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“When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God. But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right…

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“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language…

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