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.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhen a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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