How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
BORIS PASTERNAK
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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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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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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You 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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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 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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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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