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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.


Czesław Miłosz

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STEVE VERNON Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY They got clutch hits when they needed to. That's what good teams do.
DAVE UHLHORN This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I wou...
JULIET MARILLIER Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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PATRICIA MCCORMICK When I went in (the locker room), I couldn't say nothing bad about what they did. I said, 'Hold you ...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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GARY F EVANS... There's nothing to report at this point. When we have something to announce, we certainly will.
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RUDYARD KIPLING They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. Th...
ESMERALDA SANTIAGO Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
FRANCINE RIVERS I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you wh...
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DAVID GRAEBER It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues
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In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of trut...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Learning

To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magni...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Language is the only homeland.
CZESłAW MIłOSZ The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that ...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity do...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Forget the suffering
You caused others.
Forget the suffering
Others caused you.
...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ To be a man and live among men is miraculous, even if we know the vile deeds and crimes that people ...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo ch...
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