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.
BORIS PASTERNAKAn unshared happiness is not happiness.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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