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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

Boris Pasternak

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Act Circumstance Hope Misfortune Remember
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
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
What 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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Enough Life Order Truth
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
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
No bad man can be a good poet.
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Bad Goodness Man One Liner Poet
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
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
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
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
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
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
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

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