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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Boris Pasternak

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
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
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
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Existence Life Literature Poetry Stop
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
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
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Art Beautiful Existence Joy Key Organic Serve
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
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
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
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

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