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“Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo che lo avrebbe torturato durante gli interrogatori. L’Elefante non era fatto per stare in prigione perché membro di una qualche organizzazione clandestina, non era fatto per sopportare la slogatura delle articolazioni e gli schiaffi né poi, con le gambe rotte dopo un tentativo di fuga nel suicidio, per capire con sollievo, in un resto di consapevolezza, che il suo povero corpo stava morendo. Ma il gioviale Elefante era nato per vivere in armonia e pace, tra gli scherzi bonari e le chiacchierate con gli amici davanti a un bicchiere di vino. Era liberale, scettico e restio alle tentazioni dell’eroismo. A mio parere, la sua morte e quella dei suoi simili grava sui Wandervögel nostri coetanei assai di più della morte di molti giovani fanatici.” LifeTortureHeroesImprisonment Book:Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition Source: Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition
“Since that moment when in a house with low eaves A doctor from the town cut the navel-string And pears dotted with white mildew Reposed in their nests of luxurious weeds I have been in the hands of humans.” HumansBirth Author:Czesław Miłosz
“Regret, to no end, in every hour Of a long life. What beautiful work Will redeem the heartbeats of a living creature And what use to confess deeds that last forever?” Regret Author:Czesław Miłosz
“The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes of a man threatened with instant death.” RealityThought Book:The Captive Mind Source: The Captive Mind
“How to resist nothingness? What power Preserves what once was, if memory does not last? For I remember little. I remember so very little.” DeathPoetryLossGriefPoemMemoryMourningRemembering Author:Czesław Miłosz
“Es posible que no haya otra memoria que la memoria de las heridas».” MemoriaHerida Author:Czesław Miłosz
“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.” LifeLearningHumilitySelf Knowledge Author:Czesław Miłosz
“The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world.” WorldLifeEarthExistence Book:The Separate Notebooks Source: The Separate Notebooks
“Tight-lipped, guided by reasons only, Cautiously let us step into the era of the unchained fire.” The Twentieth Century Author:Czesław Miłosz
“A few have become acquainted with Orwell’s 1984; because it is both difficult to obtain and dangerous to possess, it is known only to certain members of the Inner Party. Orwell fascinates them through his insight into details they know well, and through his use of Swiftian satire. Such a form of writing is forbidden by the New Faith because allegory, by nature manifold in meaning, would trespass beyond the prescriptions of socialist realism and the demands of the censor. Even those who know Orwell only by hearsay are amazed that a writer who never lived in Russia should have so keen a perception into its life.” RussiaSocialismCommunismCensorshipTotalitarianismGeorge OrwellNineteen Eighty Four Author:Czesław Miłosz
“Pero pocos conocen 1984, de Orwell. Esta obra, difícil de obtener y cuya posesión entraña peligro, solo es conocida por algunos miembros del Partido Interno. Orwell los fascina por su perspicaz visión de detalles que ellos conocen muy bien, así como su uso de la sátira al estilo Swift. Tal manera de escribir ésta prohibida de la Nueva Fe, porque la alegoría, que por su naturaleza implica múltiples significados, violaría las prescripciones del realismo socialista y las exigencias de la censura.” SocialismoComunismoEnsayoMiłosz Book:The Captive Mind Source: The Captive Mind