Quote For August 14, 2022

Czeslaw Milosz’s quote on illusions.

“Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.” — Czesław Miłosz

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August 14, 2004

Czesław Miłosz, the Polish-American writer and poet, 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, died at age 93.

Books

• The Captive Mind
• Unattainable Earth

Reference

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980

“What has no shadow has no strength to live.”