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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Boris Pasternak

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
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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Accustom Division Healing Sorrow Torture Wound
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
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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Angel Flame Shadow Temptation
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Erupt Explosion Myself Understand Wonderful World
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
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
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
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Compassionate Feeling Object Ourselves Strong Victim
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object

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