“We are unable to live nakedly. We must constantly wrap ourselves in a cocoon of mental constructs, our changing styles of philosophy, poetry, art. We invest meaning in that which is opposed to meaning; that ceaseless labor, that spinning is the most purely human of our activities.”

Czeslaw Milosz, “Essay in Which the Author Confesses That He Is on the Side of Man, for Lack of Anything Better”

“We are unable to live nakedly. We must constantly wrap ourselves in a cocoon of mental constructs, our changing styles of philosophy, poetry, art. We invest meaning in that which is opposed to meaning; that ceaseless labor, that spinning is the most purely human of our activities.”

Czeslaw Milosz, “Essay in Which the Author Confesses That He Is on the Side of Man, for Lack of Anything Better”