Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
BORIS PASTERNAK
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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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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How 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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