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Quotes from City of My Youth — Czesław Miłosz

1911–2004 Poland

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Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him
And every shame, every grief, every love.

City of My Youth (1984)

It would be more decorous not to live. To live is not decorous,
Says he who after many years
Returned to the city of his youth.

City of My Youth (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Czesław Miłosz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.