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“All the crushing might of an armed state is hurled against any man who refuses to accept the New Faith. At the same time, Stalinism attacks him from within, saying his opposition is caused by his "class consciousness", just as psychoanalysts accuse their foes of wanting to preserve their complexes.”
― Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind

“I shall go back again to the bleak shore
And build a little shanty on the sand,
In such a way that the extremest band
Of brittle seaweed will escape my door
But by a yard or two; and nevermore
Shall I return to take you by the hand;
I shall be gone to what I understand,
And happier than I ever was before.
The love that stood a moment in your eyes,
The words that lay a moment on your tongue,
Are one with all that in a moment dies,
A little under-said and over-sung.
But I shall find the sullen rocks and skies
Unchanged from what they were when I was young.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Sonnets

“I am waylaid by Beauty. Who will walk
Between me and the crying of the frogs?”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“If I could have two things in one: The peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.”
― Edna St.Vincent Millay