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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

Boris Pasternak

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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Finding Herself Move Stand Stop
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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Art Death Life Meditation Occupation Realization
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
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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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
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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Easy Great Heart Knock Life Missing Moments Yourself
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Man Power Resist Truth
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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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Alone Isolation Moments Woman
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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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

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