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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.

Boris Pasternak

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Death Life Lose Necessary
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
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
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
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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Fate Feeling Heart Myself Sensitive
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
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.
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Compassionate Feeling Object Ourselves Strong Victim
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Disappoint Greatness Life Mom

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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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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