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“We turn from the light to see.”

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Don Paterson is a Scottish poet born in 1963. His work is known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, and he is considered one of the most important poets of the contemporary era. more

“As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.”

Knows Believe Humans Kind Lasts Desire Dies I Believe Human Beings Forget Childhood Essentials Anxiety Understood Philosophical Seven Access Preventing

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.”

Philosophical Stuck Leafs Snail

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“The 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.”

Humans Kind Moments Lasts Vision Shapes Philosophical Screens Organisms Unbelievable Mist Separating Fragility Partition

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.”

Soul Light Form Stars Written Communication Stones Crosses Philosophical Bridges Rays Written Word Spoken Word Tolerable Rays Of Light

Author:Fernando Pessoa

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