The unarmed power of naked truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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