The unarmed power of naked truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKI am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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