I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAKDuring the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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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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