Human material seems to have ...

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.
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 Czeslaw Milosz

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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?
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I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
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And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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