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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

Boris Pasternak

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
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
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Himself Modern Society Survival Writing
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Enough Life Order Truth
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Art Discover Extraordinary Literature People Word
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
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
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
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Existence Himself Inheritance Love People Remember
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
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

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