All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt 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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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