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We must discover security within ourselves.

Boris Pasternak

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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When 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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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