It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhat is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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