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

Boris Pasternak

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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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
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
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
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
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
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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Genuine Happiness Life Share
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art Interest Moments Power
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
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Adventure Greatness Hero Madness Woman
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
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
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
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation

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