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People Quotes by Czeslaw Milosz
- What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
- It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
- A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
- I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on…
- In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
- You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
- A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice,…
- Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life.…
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