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Czeslaw Milosz quotes about thinking

Poet June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004

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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. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged. Czeslaw Milosz
I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy. Czeslaw Milosz
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged. Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that..."
You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that..."
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends Czeslaw Milosz

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