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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

Boris Pasternak

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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Accustom Division Healing Sorrow Torture Wound
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Character Force Goodness Myself Revolution Thinking
They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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Hate Love Yourself
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
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
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
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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Act End Escape Hypocrisy One Liner Order Planning
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Man Power Resist Truth
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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Fate Feeling Heart Myself Sensitive
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Existence Himself Inheritance Love People Remember

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