"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism."

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Source : "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

Czeslaw Milosz

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“I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.”

Source : "Step-by-step guide to dance: Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal" by Sanjoy Roy, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2010.
“Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.”
“Routine is the death to heroism.”
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“What good is the Moon? You can't buy it or sell it.”
“Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.”
“I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.”
“I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.”

Source : Speech in Eastbourne, November 20, 1975.

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