They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
BORIS PASTERNAKThey don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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