I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning. - Zbigniew Herbert
No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.
- Zbigniew Herbert
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to ano… - Zbigniew Herbert
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to ano…
The dead have need of fairy tales too. - Zbigniew Herbert
The dead have need of fairy tales too.
I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness - Zbigniew Herbert
I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness
And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City - Zbigniew Herbert
And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City
Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it. - Zbigniew Herbert
Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.
Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important - Zbigniew Herbert
Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology - Zbigniew Herbert
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart. - Zbigniew Herbert
Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.
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