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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

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 writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Himself Modern Society Survival Writing
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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Freedom Light Myself People
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Death Life Lose Necessary
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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Discussion Necessary Poetry Simplicity Talk
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
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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Establishment Ignorance Man Myth Power
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
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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Arms Beautiful Bold Draw Fall Gift Goodness Togetherness Yourself
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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Hate Love Yourself
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
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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Deep Electricity Love Pain Woman

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