She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou 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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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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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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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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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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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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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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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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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