What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

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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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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 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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Organic Serve
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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Resemble
I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Boredom Complication
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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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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Guest
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Oneself
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Religious
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Isolation
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.

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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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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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Modern
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Enchant
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

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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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