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Oscar Milosz

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Oscar Milosz

Birthname

Birthday: May 28, 1877

Birthplace: Äareja

Death: March 2, 1939

Educated At: Lycée Janson De Sailly, École Du Louvre

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: Lithuania

Occupations: Essayist, Diplomat, Playwright, Writer, Poet

Total quotes: 1

“As I stood in contemplation of the garden of the wonders of space, I had the feeling that I was looking into the ultimate depths, the most secret regions of my own being; and I smiled, because it had never occurred to me that I could be so pure, so great, so fair! My heart burst into singing with the song of grace of the universe. All these constellations are yours, they exist in you; outside your love they have no reality! How terrible the world seems to those who do not know themselves! When you felt so alone and abandoned in the presence of the sea, imagine what solitude the waters must have felt in the night, or the night’s own solitude in a universe without end!”

— Oscar Milosz, L'amoureuse Initiation

Tagged: Immensity, Transcendence, Get To Know Yourself, Who You Are

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