No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAKHow many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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