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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

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
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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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
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
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Break Enough Seek Solitary Truth
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
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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Freedom Light Myself People
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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Blade Creation Poetry Rich Tears
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
No bad man can be a good poet.
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Bad Goodness Man One Liner Poet
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
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
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
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking

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