Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn 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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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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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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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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