No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
BORIS PASTERNAKOh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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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.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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