And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
BORIS PASTERNAKThe most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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