You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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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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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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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