You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
Czeslaw MiloszIn a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
Czeslaw MiloszThe partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
Czeslaw MiloszGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz