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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

Boris Pasternak

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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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