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

Boris Pasternak

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Disappoint Greatness Life Mom
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
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Burn Candle Deep Snow World
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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Earth Freedom Love People Thinking Unique
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
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
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
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
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
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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Age Change Discover Existence Guest Ourselves Science Security Travel War World
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Art Discover Extraordinary Literature People Word
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
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

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