Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
BORIS PASTERNAKI come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed 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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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