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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Boris Pasternak

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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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art Interest Moments Power
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Boredom Complication Death Impression Need
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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Calm Myself Reach Religious Stand World
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
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Break Enough Seek Solitary Truth
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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Burn Candle Deep Snow World
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Character Force Goodness Myself Revolution Thinking
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
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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Deep Electricity Love Pain Woman
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

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

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