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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

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Czeslaw Milosz
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: June 30
Died: 2004
Died: August 14
Diplomat
Essayist
Pedagogue
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Miłosz
Czelaw Milosz
Become
React
Even
Technical
Efficiency
Indifferent
Crafts
Technique
Content
Form

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