"Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars,……" — Czeslaw Milosz
"Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master."
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Czeslaw Milosz
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