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soporific

As pedantic prose, it has potent soporific properties.

—p.277 by Czesław Miłosz
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I had no idea that this is called love for/pq project/stunt-story topic/love

[...] I was, I think, eight years old. The old folks gossiped and entrusted me to a young girl, who was to show me the park. We walked along the paths, crossed some little bridges which had railings made of birch poles - I remember that well. Then it happened. I looked at her thin bare shoulders, t…

—p.186 by Czesław Miłosz
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feuilleton

writing his feuilletons for The Universal Weekly

—p.154 by Czesław Miłosz
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people go to church because they are divided beings

CHURCHES. People go to church because they are divided beings. They wish, for a moment at least, to find themselves in a reality other than the one that surrounds them and claims to be the only true reality. This daily reality is unyielding, brutal, cruel, and hard to bear. The human "I" is sof…

—p.83 by Czesław Miłosz
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vituperation

commenting vituperatively on the imitators of modernity in other languages who are totally unaware of what motivated the French

—p.57 by Czesław Miłosz
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