What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
BORIS PASTERNAK
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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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