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We must discover security within ourselves.

Boris Pasternak

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
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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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art Interest Moments Power
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 come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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Discussion Necessary Poetry Simplicity Talk
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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Age Change Discover Existence Guest Ourselves Science Security Travel War World
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Enough Life Order Truth

We must discover security within ourselves.

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