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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

Boris Pasternak

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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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