Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
BORIS PASTERNAKAnd remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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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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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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