Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs 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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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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 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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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 love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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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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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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