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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

Boris Pasternak

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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Best Complication Expression Lyrics Poetry Possible Value
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Act Circumstance Hope Misfortune Remember
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Fools Generation Himself Talk Truth
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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Finding Herself Move Stand Stop
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Change Figure Life Principle
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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Art Beautiful Existence Joy Key Organic Serve
They 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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Hate Love Yourself
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
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol

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